Pith Number

pith:RALQJKEB

pith:2009:RALQJKEBP7WHRZIV5LF4QDFJY3

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Electric Potential Due to a System of Conducting Spheres

John E. Lane, Philip T. Metzger

arxiv:0906.1617 v1 · 2009-06-09 · physics.class-ph · math.CA · physics.comp-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RALQJKEBP7WHRZIV5LF4QDFJY3}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T02:13:21.427999Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

881704a8817fec78e515eacbc80ca9c6ee4434daa16c0339dd2476f4667536d9

Aliases

arxiv: 0906.1617 · arxiv_version: 0906.1617v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0906.1617 · pith_short_12: RALQJKEBP7WH · pith_short_16: RALQJKEBP7WHRZIV · pith_short_8: RALQJKEB

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/RALQJKEBP7WHRZIV5LF4QDFJY3 \
  | 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: 881704a8817fec78e515eacbc80ca9c6ee4434daa16c0339dd2476f4667536d9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a9e023712536ad2d6488c3fe6a4c8206782537fa23795643b82967da473ea223",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.CA",
      "physics.comp-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.class-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2009-06-09T00:24:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d05dfe501b4ed97a5bed13864fae1c593a0a68d317bfe19ce48c526450925a06"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0906.1617",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}