Pith Number

pith:5XOY4LJZ

pith:2017:5XOY4LJZJZKXR6EFEFVJ3SNPCW

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An ultrafast electro-optic light source with sub-cycle precision

Andrew J. Metcalf, Daniel D. Hickstein, David R. Carlson, Franklyn Quinlan, Scott A. Diddams, Scott B. Papp, Wei Zhang

arxiv:1711.08429 v1 · 2017-11-22 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5XOY4LJZJZKXR6EFEFVJ3SNPCW}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-05-18T00:04:34.159712Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eddd8e2d394e5578f885216a9dc9af15a7ee3356488f62a3ede96627c0625a52

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.08429 · arxiv_version: 1711.08429v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.08429 · pith_short_12: 5XOY4LJZJZKX · pith_short_16: 5XOY4LJZJZKXR6EF · pith_short_8: 5XOY4LJZ

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/5XOY4LJZJZKXR6EFEFVJ3SNPCW \
  | 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: eddd8e2d394e5578f885216a9dc9af15a7ee3356488f62a3ede96627c0625a52

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c53469a2300fadcbb50c084b86f75a180e5eefcf809405cece8a710d8c528542",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-22T18:25:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4a315e4e771e5b48e2109b127fe185f48afbf65f51713681f0689b9c1c952cea"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.08429",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}