Pith Number

pith:7YEWU4SY

pith:2017:7YEWU4SYMQAF4XZFH6OQC2KQVQ

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Theory of Kerr Instability Amplification

C. R. McDonald, G. Bart, G. Vampa, M. Nesrallah, P. B. Corkum, T. Brabec

arxiv:1711.04417 v1 · 2017-11-13 · physics.optics

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7YEWU4SYMQAF4XZFH6OQC2KQVQ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:30:39.090548Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fe096a725864005e5f253f9d016950ac27d133d2b676f72d0d31ed05901364d9

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.04417 · arxiv_version: 1711.04417v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.04417 · pith_short_12: 7YEWU4SYMQAF · pith_short_16: 7YEWU4SYMQAF4XZF · pith_short_8: 7YEWU4SY

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/7YEWU4SYMQAF4XZFH6OQC2KQVQ \
  | 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: fe096a725864005e5f253f9d016950ac27d133d2b676f72d0d31ed05901364d9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5b00f9640e76534a27868f067db1edafe74466539c03cd5a012c83035678b8b7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-13T04:22:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c5d744fe0f43efacdb5dad618e723293bfb38ebd25e197e846d9e3919266f0e4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.04417",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}