Pith Number

pith:3QRNSTSD

pith:2023:3QRNSTSDJ7LPADNW76CL4444JV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The art of finding the optimal scattering center(s)

Alexander V. Kildishev, Daria Smirnova, Karim Achouri

arxiv:2309.13383 v4 · 2023-09-23 · physics.optics

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3QRNSTSDJ7LPADNW76CL4444JV}

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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	2026-07-05T07:15:16.359794Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dc22d94e434fd6f00db6ff84be739c4d70c222248660b1d210f88837e3e8e010

Aliases

arxiv: 2309.13383 · arxiv_version: 2309.13383v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2309.13383 · pith_short_12: 3QRNSTSDJ7LP · pith_short_16: 3QRNSTSDJ7LPADNW · pith_short_8: 3QRNSTSD

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/3QRNSTSDJ7LPADNW76CL4444JV \
  | 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: dc22d94e434fd6f00db6ff84be739c4d70c222248660b1d210f88837e3e8e010

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d905de926f43531b8c4104930d1f4ea303269c5626f2c4e64d9fb8a574593c29",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2023-09-23T14:04:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ddd5348de93496a216abec38606280d667677d672b5fcec4d10be9cff57d58a4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2309.13383",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}