Pith Number

pith:M5AC6OYT

pith:2019:M5AC6OYTSB2GSJW622FVUQTLFJ

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Dielectric Dilemma

Robert Eisenberg

arxiv:1901.10805 v2 · 2019-01-15 · physics.class-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M5AC6OYTSB2GSJW622FVUQTLFJ}

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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	2026-05-17T23:54:53.049632Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

67402f3b1390746926ded68b5a426b2a5390ac686ff808cd9a0129ca24bbbb20

Aliases

arxiv: 1901.10805 · arxiv_version: 1901.10805v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1901.10805 · pith_short_12: M5AC6OYTSB2G · pith_short_16: M5AC6OYTSB2GSJW6 · pith_short_8: M5AC6OYT

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/M5AC6OYTSB2GSJW622FVUQTLFJ \
  | 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: 67402f3b1390746926ded68b5a426b2a5390ac686ff808cd9a0129ca24bbbb20

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4e5d98009d51881b5d3c8c417db0e6fc45e4b90bf7f863f3b88f782aa50faf1a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.class-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2019-01-15T15:38:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "909ce0c4d9fe1b00395fef4d93fa5710f0dbc15076a3ad960f68e8dab043f703"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1901.10805",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}