Pith Number

pith:5PLZUJ5R

pith:2017:5PLZUJ5RWVKVF6B2N62TSE2MPM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Wide field-of-view and high-efficiency light concentrator

Shaomin Chen, Ye Liang, Yu Zhi, Zhe Wang

arxiv:1703.07527 v2 · 2017-03-22 · physics.ins-det

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5PLZUJ5RWVKVF6B2N62TSE2MPM}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:26:08.249288Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ebd79a27b1b55552f83a6fb539134c7b3bc6aa3a6e9a2fd724c7cea2625e71e7

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.07527 · arxiv_version: 1703.07527v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.07527 · pith_short_12: 5PLZUJ5RWVKV · pith_short_16: 5PLZUJ5RWVKVF6B2 · pith_short_8: 5PLZUJ5R

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/5PLZUJ5RWVKVF6B2N62TSE2MPM \
  | 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: ebd79a27b1b55552f83a6fb539134c7b3bc6aa3a6e9a2fd724c7cea2625e71e7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "115b1b620a7b1c86baab4b59f4b9f0c66a149a38a00949cd3614e88cbb0fb874",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ins-det",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-22T04:55:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c75bc4238502c2a7626ee0e2641450152afd8b8b49645152410881888ad84bf9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.07527",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}