Pith Number

pith:5SVKW4PM

pith:2010:5SVKW4PMGI7VNDMR6MERHYIKDR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Canonical quantization of macroscopic electromagnetism

T.G. Philbin

arxiv:1009.5005 v2 · 2010-09-25 · quant-ph · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5SVKW4PMGI7VNDMR6MERHYIKDR}

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T02:05:17.342556Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ecaaab71ec323f568d91f30913e10a1c4376e954ae9ff0f12810c3846a33f632

Aliases

arxiv: 1009.5005 · arxiv_version: 1009.5005v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1009.5005 · pith_short_12: 5SVKW4PMGI7V · pith_short_16: 5SVKW4PMGI7VNDMR · pith_short_8: 5SVKW4PM

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/5SVKW4PMGI7VNDMR6MERHYIKDR \
  | 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: ecaaab71ec323f568d91f30913e10a1c4376e954ae9ff0f12810c3846a33f632

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6760f9170c3fcd4afeaeb87f18cb3f49a20f9618796459b674295814892bec6b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-09-25T11:10:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e7fb62c4a10fcda725c87840887f6ba78a2ee9b824a5215c9fec81b99d82b5e7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1009.5005",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}