Pith Number

pith:WTIZFV3Q

pith:2016:WTIZFV3QRWRBPJWSWCRIAV6H6F

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The transition from quantum field theory to one-particle quantum mechanics and a proposed interpretation of Aharonov-Bohm effect

Benliang Li, Daniel W. Hewak, Qi Jie Wang

arxiv:1607.03501 v5 · 2016-07-12 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WTIZFV3QRWRBPJWSWCRIAV6H6F}

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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	2026-05-18T00:11:19.268491Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b4d192d7708da217a6d2b0a28057c7f141db982168a17a59eb85265ff5e53611

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.03501 · arxiv_version: 1607.03501v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.03501 · pith_short_12: WTIZFV3QRWRB · pith_short_16: WTIZFV3QRWRBPJWS · pith_short_8: WTIZFV3Q

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WTIZFV3QRWRBPJWSWCRIAV6H6F \
  | 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: b4d192d7708da217a6d2b0a28057c7f141db982168a17a59eb85265ff5e53611

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dfaaad6f90e557041352ffd4a8cc4080f348140a8a28101db046c15ed23cd6ee",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-12T20:16:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "daebc6cef10c656e4560e4d70c2c36cdd7e55e5f073a4f3a90022a30a59dc300"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.03501",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}