Pith Number

pith:QU2BFEEC

pith:2001:QU2BFEECTPYWA73M5RIAFM5LQT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the interaction of point charges in an arbitrary domain

Alexander Silbergleit, Ilya Mandel, Ilya Nemenman

arxiv:physics/0105052 v1 · 2001-05-17 · physics.class-ph · physics.ed-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QU2BFEECTPYWA73M5RIAFM5LQT}

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First computed	2026-07-04T14:43:26.643760Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

85341290829bf1607f6cec5002b3ab84e383030aa893665fb27051795136959f

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0105052 · arxiv_version: physics/0105052v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0105052 · pith_short_12: QU2BFEECTPYW · pith_short_16: QU2BFEECTPYWA73M · pith_short_8: QU2BFEEC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QU2BFEECTPYWA73M5RIAFM5LQT \
  | 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: 85341290829bf1607f6cec5002b3ab84e383030aa893665fb27051795136959f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5ee6dbb4ce2c703ee1ce690c56e301ec11271ec8f6de7d58c5dccbd695630d5c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.ed-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.class-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2001-05-17T02:16:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0485b2177ba9d7f39736adb33451bd7c4ba519a503b08f0c75425d61cefd72e3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0105052",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}