Pith Number

pith:56U2YP5P

pith:2017:56U2YP5P7L6ZJZQVBXXCKTMHEQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Scattering of Poincare beams: polarization speckles

R. P. Singh, Salla Gangi Reddy, Vijay Kumar, Yoko Miyamoto

arxiv:1705.04478 v1 · 2017-05-12 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{56U2YP5P7L6ZJZQVBXXCKTMHEQ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:44:37.988848Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

efa9ac3faffafd94e6150dee254d87240cf2ab3c36cecc9c78760fc732bfdf07

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.04478 · arxiv_version: 1705.04478v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.04478 · pith_short_12: 56U2YP5P7L6Z · pith_short_16: 56U2YP5P7L6ZJZQV · pith_short_8: 56U2YP5P

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/56U2YP5P7L6ZJZQVBXXCKTMHEQ \
  | 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: efa9ac3faffafd94e6150dee254d87240cf2ab3c36cecc9c78760fc732bfdf07

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ff3e7ce37a2e3d52907e60880376b15078392ec184c386f82b503ee42fa5189a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-12T09:11:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6cc9de4e05d31ed9cd50bc936b340e001e9edda712fd308d41cd872b8f258d0c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.04478",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}