Pith Number

pith:QMA6K3V6

pith:2018:QMA6K3V6LUJOQUQDMC7YRQKN6I

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Maxwell's Theory of Solid Angle and the Construction of Knotted Fields

Gareth P. Alexander, Jack Binysh

arxiv:1805.10358 v2 · 2018-05-25 · math-ph · cond-mat.soft · math.MP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QMA6K3V6LUJOQUQDMC7YRQKN6I}

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4 Citations open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:05:45.476568Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8301e56ebe5d12e8520360bf88c14df21ed8bb4fa9371a1da8bbcaf6c64d3b57

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.10358 · arxiv_version: 1805.10358v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.10358 · pith_short_12: QMA6K3V6LUJO · pith_short_16: QMA6K3V6LUJOQUQD · pith_short_8: QMA6K3V6

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/QMA6K3V6LUJOQUQDMC7YRQKN6I \
  | 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: 8301e56ebe5d12e8520360bf88c14df21ed8bb4fa9371a1da8bbcaf6c64d3b57

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f1376f755e70af2891d81599569d8fe449df5742f7d0fef3572ddf8c9bf75bee",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.soft",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-25T20:40:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cc44075be9e2e2b501c3e594e4f3b3f55ad1867cb804c35adaf43d126669fb00"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.10358",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}