Pith Number

pith:4IVHSXKL

pith:2006:4IVHSXKLMOGK7I3KNEVSG7BZW4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Surface waves at the interface between left-handed and birefringent materials

David Artigas, Dumitru Mihalache, Lluis Torner, Lucian-Cornel Crasovan, Osamu Takayama, Steffen Kjaer Johansen

arxiv:physics/0603181 v1 · 2006-03-22 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4IVHSXKLMOGK7I3KNEVSG7BZW4}

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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	2026-05-18T03:24:20.889431Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e22a795d4b638cafa36a692b237c39b72637eb7de0a577bf37b1b4a90622600d

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0603181 · arxiv_version: physics/0603181v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0603181 · pith_short_12: 4IVHSXKLMOGK · pith_short_16: 4IVHSXKLMOGK7I3K · pith_short_8: 4IVHSXKL

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/4IVHSXKLMOGK7I3KNEVSG7BZW4 \
  | 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: e22a795d4b638cafa36a692b237c39b72637eb7de0a577bf37b1b4a90622600d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c1de7f7c84b11fa58f1e66567d4b8047ea597e544b871116d66aa489c3290a75",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2006-03-22T15:16:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8bab5e4d01c779f26cf897ebfabaff51b1674e784e7e20c0ac4eec010908af44"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0603181",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}