Pith Number

pith:4BE6JMKU

pith:2013:4BE6JMKUHDNKEWJDF7GJDJV3FL

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Generation of a retro-reflected wave by interaction of an evanescent wave with a sub-wavelength structure

Thomas Milster, Young-Gu Ju

arxiv:1306.5493 v1 · 2013-06-24 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4BE6JMKUHDNKEWJDF7GJDJV3FL}

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:20:07.909406Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e049e4b15438daa259232fcc91a6bb2aedfb9bc612104df37dfa899d83743d81

Aliases

arxiv: 1306.5493 · arxiv_version: 1306.5493v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1306.5493 · pith_short_12: 4BE6JMKUHDNK · pith_short_16: 4BE6JMKUHDNKEWJD · pith_short_8: 4BE6JMKU

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4BE6JMKUHDNKEWJDF7GJDJV3FL \
  | 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: e049e4b15438daa259232fcc91a6bb2aedfb9bc612104df37dfa899d83743d81

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8677db3e2f5ac91a51656d1263de91c52d96bc8a961c44ea0f2a4251e83d4a62",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2013-06-24T01:14:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "01616475375b1040db4de18c29dfaa56ec5daa46b92d87a377c117d11d6a0e50"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1306.5493",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}