Pith Number

pith:A3O4YNIF

pith:2010:A3O4YNIFBDN5UHVIZTH3KJCGVP

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Comparison of different forms for the "spin" and "orbital" components of the angular momentum of light

A. M. Stewart

arxiv:1010.1056 v5 · 2010-10-06 · physics.class-ph · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A3O4YNIFBDN5UHVIZTH3KJCGVP}

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:03:43.582102Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

06ddcc350508dbda1ea8cccfb52446abee9de39bebad751f0045c5df69858430

Aliases

arxiv: 1010.1056 · arxiv_version: 1010.1056v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1010.1056 · pith_short_12: A3O4YNIFBDN5 · pith_short_16: A3O4YNIFBDN5UHVI · pith_short_8: A3O4YNIF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/A3O4YNIFBDN5UHVIZTH3KJCGVP \
  | 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: 06ddcc350508dbda1ea8cccfb52446abee9de39bebad751f0045c5df69858430

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b917d84767cedf17ba888ad9da79cd7f7ca5f052576bbe321c8b4d3d7a605d13",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.class-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-10-06T03:18:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "10ec99f43cc4309da7202fa0ef3bc489e926a876a4d356ff98f3afb4325f7862"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1010.1056",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}