Pith Number

pith:6EDREOBE

pith:2015:6EDREOBEFFLPB6F32HX24TFG4T

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Universal Linear Optics

Anthony Laing, Chris Harrold, Chris Sparrow, Enrique Mart\'in-L\'opez, Graham D. Marshall, Jacques Carolan, Jeremy L. O'Brien, Jonathan C. F. Matthews, Joshua W. Silverstone, Manabu Oguma, Mark G. Thompson, Mikitaka Itoh, Nicholas J. Russell, Nobuyuki Matsuda, Peter J. Shadbolt, Toshikazu Hashimoto

arxiv:1505.01182 v1 · 2015-05-05 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6EDREOBEFFLPB6F32HX24TFG4T}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:09:47.012607Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f1071238242956f0f8bbd1efae4ca6e4ed0b21d56333373844123b0c6c52c40a

Aliases

arxiv: 1505.01182 · arxiv_version: 1505.01182v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1505.01182 · pith_short_12: 6EDREOBEFFLP · pith_short_16: 6EDREOBEFFLPB6F3 · pith_short_8: 6EDREOBE

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/6EDREOBEFFLPB6F32HX24TFG4T \
  | 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: f1071238242956f0f8bbd1efae4ca6e4ed0b21d56333373844123b0c6c52c40a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "18dd94cad19f6857b2469ddac109da9b2081ef507043c64e03fe457c6807f97b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-05-05T20:52:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "51241a50ff7c24a5dc9cbab22d1b201caea096860de2d5b10341133be4763ea7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1505.01182",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}