Pith Number

pith:6QLSQ25K

pith:2015:6QLSQ25K6OAIC6ISDFHYJ5LWR6

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Spectral decomposition of the Mueller matrix: A geometrical model

Colin J. R. Sheppard

arxiv:1510.01110 v1 · 2015-10-05 · physics.optics

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\pithnumber{6QLSQ25K6OAIC6ISDFHYJ5LWR6}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:31:04.824030Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f417286baaf380817912194f84f5768fb8124010d4916e489e3062b2656dedb9

Aliases

arxiv: 1510.01110 · arxiv_version: 1510.01110v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1510.01110 · pith_short_12: 6QLSQ25K6OAI · pith_short_16: 6QLSQ25K6OAIC6IS · pith_short_8: 6QLSQ25K

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6QLSQ25K6OAIC6ISDFHYJ5LWR6 \
  | 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: f417286baaf380817912194f84f5768fb8124010d4916e489e3062b2656dedb9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0bbbaadf122eac1a6b4a4093100ce4f930a0bc80d8c56502b5b44db613d7a405",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2015-10-05T11:51:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ec5b199f7a04bd7003c5d6c59952d37fdafed5b7fdc35db79fec26a38d3ee6d0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1510.01110",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}