Pith Number

pith:VGWQ5XEP

pith:2013:VGWQ5XEPXU3A6M6ON3LL6E3MIL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Translation of an article by Paul Drude in 1904

A. J. Sederberg, B. H. McGuyer, F. Apfelbeck, J. Burkhart

arxiv:1303.1588 v2 · 2013-03-07 · physics.hist-ph · physics.class-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VGWQ5XEPXU3A6M6ON3LL6E3MIL}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:16:30.023460Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9ad0edc8fbd360f33ce6ed6bf136c42d603f2fd897e1665bbd9eba6ebaf3114

Aliases

arxiv: 1303.1588 · arxiv_version: 1303.1588v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1303.1588 · pith_short_12: VGWQ5XEPXU3A · pith_short_16: VGWQ5XEPXU3A6M6O · pith_short_8: VGWQ5XEP

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/VGWQ5XEPXU3A6M6ON3LL6E3MIL \
  | 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: a9ad0edc8fbd360f33ce6ed6bf136c42d603f2fd897e1665bbd9eba6ebaf3114

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8734a32a97067001e04f112e16efebcbda5e3265126bcc7e85579fa249777b25",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.class-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-03-07T01:50:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "32536470d8a92a986e244517174ca707889e61a17c08765dc24eb97f786b7ef1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1303.1588",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}