Pith Number

pith:5JEB3LBN

pith:2016:5JEB3LBNJ4QRGY2LLEJQBBBGSS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fundamental limits on the electro-optic device figure of merit

Mark G. Kuzyk, Rick Lytel, Sean Mossman

arxiv:1607.06052 v1 · 2016-07-20 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5JEB3LBNJ4QRGY2LLEJQBBBGSS}

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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	2026-05-18T01:00:34.100615Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ea481dac2d4f2113634b59130084269497f7b7fe326d98f7bf9fc691fa44b1a9

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.06052 · arxiv_version: 1607.06052v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.06052 · pith_short_12: 5JEB3LBNJ4QR · pith_short_16: 5JEB3LBNJ4QRGY2L · pith_short_8: 5JEB3LBN

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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/5JEB3LBNJ4QRGY2LLEJQBBBGSS \
  | 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: ea481dac2d4f2113634b59130084269497f7b7fe326d98f7bf9fc691fa44b1a9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2652036c2ae72d267989970b7e652058b361a0241b313960b41143916b7dfa12",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-20T18:25:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e457748c368c5eaa639c7ca78e36e0f33a66af16384899cda9caa85eceedd99b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.06052",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}