Pith Number

pith:W5GFHYFB

pith:1996:W5GFHYFBFWOLRPMF7WIR4KJO4O

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Mass as a Relativistic Quantum Observable

Marc-Thierry Jaekel (Laboratoire de Physique Th\'eorique de l'Ecole Normale Sup\'erieure), Serge Reynaud (Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel)

arxiv:quant-ph/9610004 v2 · 1996-10-03 · quant-ph · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W5GFHYFBFWOLRPMF7WIR4KJO4O}

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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	2026-05-18T04:33:04.621774Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b74c53e0a12d9cb8bd85fd911e292ee390e19ac7bcf97270dd6c7e373c82bc13

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9610004 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9610004v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9610004 · pith_short_12: W5GFHYFBFWOL · pith_short_16: W5GFHYFBFWOLRPMF · pith_short_8: W5GFHYFB

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/W5GFHYFBFWOLRPMF7WIR4KJO4O \
  | 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: b74c53e0a12d9cb8bd85fd911e292ee390e19ac7bcf97270dd6c7e373c82bc13

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2c42672e69526c16bb89bfeb462c2cca194dbebe614cd0d5af6eb4288d9f96f2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-10-03T10:46:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a93f9ba4c8acd0edf540629815e410ba851e8e89b2c4d8961e8454a6608ccd95"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9610004",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}