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pith:VNV4C2EE

pith:2011:VNV4C2EEIMIGE2PITOYZEELMHC

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On the origin of the minimal coupling rule, and on the possiblity of observing a classical, "Aharonov-Bohm-like" angular momentum

Raymond Chiao

arxiv:1104.4493 v1 · 2011-04-22 · physics.class-ph · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{VNV4C2EEIMIGE2PITOYZEELMHC}

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:23:34.541879Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab6bc1688443106269e89bb192116c388bd8b7aa56f2823d38dbb061db6e8d61

Aliases

arxiv: 1104.4493 · arxiv_version: 1104.4493v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1104.4493 · pith_short_12: VNV4C2EEIMIG · pith_short_16: VNV4C2EEIMIGE2PI · pith_short_8: VNV4C2EE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VNV4C2EEIMIGE2PITOYZEELMHC \
  | 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: ab6bc1688443106269e89bb192116c388bd8b7aa56f2823d38dbb061db6e8d61

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
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    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.class-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-04-22T19:49:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c486aee2321bdeeea65502932d29cae67c74d258b41e12061452d55f16e1ecb8"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
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