Pith Number

pith:TVRWUKH2

pith:2014:TVRWUKH2LLZKBEPUMEVYL7GSQZ

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Charging Capacitors According to Maxwell's Equations: Impossible

Daniele Funaro

arxiv:1412.6005 v1 · 2014-11-02 · physics.gen-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TVRWUKH2LLZKBEPUMEVYL7GSQZ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T02:30:55.748255Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9d636a28fa5af2a091f4612b85fcd28653d21c9b9741808fe6e520aeeed6328e

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.6005 · arxiv_version: 1412.6005v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.6005 · pith_short_12: TVRWUKH2LLZK · pith_short_16: TVRWUKH2LLZKBEPU · pith_short_8: TVRWUKH2

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/TVRWUKH2LLZKBEPUMEVYL7GSQZ \
  | 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: 9d636a28fa5af2a091f4612b85fcd28653d21c9b9741808fe6e520aeeed6328e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4ac36021c53d71a85461314f770fd1efcfa88c01317ae02c864f7064d64e2abf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-02T09:14:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b6064a58cae8785c8c18feddc077dc3a8279b272bff33cb3c887d04df6c06dec"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.6005",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}