Pith Number

pith:POUMRCNK

pith:1997:POUMRCNKJRVVGFRCG5DO2DLHVS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Three-dimensional quantization of the electromagnetic field in dispersive and absorbing inhomogeneous dielectrics

D.-G. Welsch, Ho Trung Dung, L. Knoell

arxiv:quant-ph/9711039 v1 · 1997-11-19 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{POUMRCNKJRVVGFRCG5DO2DLHVS}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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First computed	2026-07-04T16:06:32.000210Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7ba8c889aa4c6b5316223746ed0d67ac97a3bed529a12be537f3ee446962fe8d

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9711039 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9711039v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9711039 · pith_short_12: POUMRCNKJRVV · pith_short_16: POUMRCNKJRVVGFRC · pith_short_8: POUMRCNK

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/POUMRCNKJRVVGFRCG5DO2DLHVS \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 7ba8c889aa4c6b5316223746ed0d67ac97a3bed529a12be537f3ee446962fe8d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "59945df0fee0c707b465b485786de2e8ae040737fff4026cbe58a36fad270a3a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-11-19T11:20:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6343d8847c2dbe37e819245f2788d2c5fa4ee0697c5b24dfb73fbc5154ba807e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9711039",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}