Pith Number

pith:4J4NGOQR

pith:2018:4J4NGOQRUVMABKHTAOMQBBUTPA

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Calculating coherent light-wave propagation in large heterogeneous media

J. Bertolotti, Simon A. R. Horsley, Tom Vettenburg

arxiv:1812.10463 v1 · 2018-12-26 · physics.comp-ph · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4J4NGOQRUVMABKHTAOMQBBUTPA}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:45:31.355252Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e278d33a11a55800a8f3039900869378164024c3f1047c894a2499cdcddd8e20

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.10463 · arxiv_version: 1812.10463v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.10463 · pith_short_12: 4J4NGOQRUVMA · pith_short_16: 4J4NGOQRUVMABKHT · pith_short_8: 4J4NGOQR

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4J4NGOQRUVMABKHTAOMQBBUTPA \
  | 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: e278d33a11a55800a8f3039900869378164024c3f1047c894a2499cdcddd8e20

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5b7c8f3dde8dd036c34e9975768d0bdb0e60c6e64008a032281dd8b4f8cefe35",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.comp-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-26T18:56:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4bbf8be079667ade23252a07cd478e5ab87cf4a4624700e08a3a6f1db774321d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.10463",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}