Pith Number

pith:VU6WLFX2

pith:2019:VU6WLFX2BY4TRPUPALYU3FHAZL

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Electromagnetism as Quantum Physics

Charles T. Sebens

arxiv:1902.01930 v3 · 2019-02-02 · quant-ph · physics.hist-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VU6WLFX2BY4TRPUPALYU3FHAZL}

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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	2026-05-17T23:44:47.588122Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad3d6596fa0e3938be8f02f14d94e0cac1a51b1992612f70cfa6d6103086c5ed

Aliases

arxiv: 1902.01930 · arxiv_version: 1902.01930v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1902.01930 · pith_short_12: VU6WLFX2BY4T · pith_short_16: VU6WLFX2BY4TRPUP · pith_short_8: VU6WLFX2

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/VU6WLFX2BY4TRPUPALYU3FHAZL \
  | 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: ad3d6596fa0e3938be8f02f14d94e0cac1a51b1992612f70cfa6d6103086c5ed

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e54a7c2b1e4dcc3204b10aa8ce9c154d8a5ed52853c4e06a8e6b3b44313dc60a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.hist-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2019-02-02T00:39:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d4faecf604d8e82f1738a61871beb76d19904e7fdb3b4651acfc512fc0bd16c7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1902.01930",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}