Pith Number

pith:ZNRDLWDW

pith:2004:ZNRDLWDWG5GN3XOXCDXH76R7IF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Casimir effect: Recent controversies and progress

Kimball A. Milton

arxiv:hep-th/0406024 v1 · 2004-06-02 · hep-th · astro-ph · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZNRDLWDWG5GN3XOXCDXH76R7IF}

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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	2026-05-18T04:17:35.987023Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cb6235d876374cddddd710ee7ffa3f415612d097267cae7801a03519dbb99688

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0406024 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0406024v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0406024 · pith_short_12: ZNRDLWDWG5GN · pith_short_16: ZNRDLWDWG5GN3XOX · pith_short_8: ZNRDLWDW

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/ZNRDLWDWG5GN3XOXCDXH76R7IF \
  | 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: cb6235d876374cddddd710ee7ffa3f415612d097267cae7801a03519dbb99688

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a2d287f0dc429ff1dccce6d80490c9fa0dc0c54eac7e2c6a447b3871786bf7bf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2004-06-02T19:41:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bb157fcf362c94189e5e504a1bf3d078cdc0f3996fb2f18032da73ba655bcf83"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0406024",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}