Pith Number

pith:5XOWJBTC

pith:2009:5XOWJBTCIAZ3Q2WEAT563WZN35

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Modeling columnar thin films as platforms for surface-plasmonic-polaritonic optical sensing

Akhlesh Lakhtakia (Pennsylvania State University), Tom G. Mackay (University of Edinburgh)

arxiv:0910.5423 v1 · 2009-10-28 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5XOWJBTCIAZ3Q2WEAT563WZN35}

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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	2026-05-18T02:11:02.086078Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eddd6486624033b86ac404fbeddb2ddf40ce0876b3836991b6696df1b78bf564

Aliases

arxiv: 0910.5423 · arxiv_version: 0910.5423v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0910.5423 · pith_short_12: 5XOWJBTCIAZ3 · pith_short_16: 5XOWJBTCIAZ3Q2WE · pith_short_8: 5XOWJBTC

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/5XOWJBTCIAZ3Q2WEAT563WZN35 \
  | 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: eddd6486624033b86ac404fbeddb2ddf40ce0876b3836991b6696df1b78bf564

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6be577ed1e82a10e272d59467c159d1d40f1b8fc8d70ca276ce8f4e1f89fcdd8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2009-10-28T16:39:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d3dcb77058acc1ed376d888b44e4effa49fbfec696fc63b655c674884403d3b6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0910.5423",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}