Pith Number

pith:YTOOG5TH

pith:2012:YTOOG5TH7L3ZIEPF7QQDMFNURY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Comment on "Trouble with the Lorentz Law of Force"

David J. Griffiths, V. Hnizdo

arxiv:1205.4646 v1 · 2012-05-21 · physics.class-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YTOOG5TH7L3ZIEPF7QQDMFNURY}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T03:55:12.691989Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c4dce37667faf79411e5fc203615b48e071157d129777ecef9189215d1077d10

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.4646 · arxiv_version: 1205.4646v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.4646 · pith_short_12: YTOOG5TH7L3Z · pith_short_16: YTOOG5TH7L3ZIEPF · pith_short_8: YTOOG5TH

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/YTOOG5TH7L3ZIEPF7QQDMFNURY \
  | 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: c4dce37667faf79411e5fc203615b48e071157d129777ecef9189215d1077d10

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f6310a99e224479ed62f45c175c20ac718b349e3779093bf0ddcd0cd20b859f2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.class-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-21T16:11:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "191dd50e4b3ff2c7eb113e7f558b2af18351a8d6a6e435ce4c2c191b783bd7d1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.4646",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}