Pith Number

pith:ZBJJEQQ5

pith:2005:ZBJJEQQ5VMATDDTEI6OAPT3NW3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Perfect electromagnetic conductor

Ari Sihvola, Ismo V. Lindell

arxiv:physics/0503232 v1 · 2005-03-31 · physics.class-ph · physics.gen-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZBJJEQQ5VMATDDTEI6OAPT3NW3}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Dynamical edge modes in Maxwell theory from a BRST perspective, with an application to the Casimir energy

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T14:44:37.402980Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c85292421dab01318e64479c07cf6db6ec645f70ecd0eb529a278cdb5884a9d7

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0503232 · arxiv_version: physics/0503232v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0503232 · pith_short_12: ZBJJEQQ5VMAT · pith_short_16: ZBJJEQQ5VMATDDTE · pith_short_8: ZBJJEQQ5

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/ZBJJEQQ5VMATDDTEI6OAPT3NW3 \
  | 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: c85292421dab01318e64479c07cf6db6ec645f70ecd0eb529a278cdb5884a9d7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4ee90954e92c46d561ad53068748aed0b5c4d10a6c2101a74d76267ab808b353",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.gen-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.class-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-03-31T12:10:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d8122ab741340eae825393dcbb7807ba7e6365e812ec712e1d7903e184d1a26e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0503232",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}