Pith Number

pith:AQF6TW6F

pith:2005:AQF6TW6FZ5AHBS7HHWZO3EXLMX

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Conceptual design of a phase shifting telescope-interferometer

Francois Henault

arxiv:physics/0511231 v1 · 2005-11-28 · physics.optics · astro-ph · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AQF6TW6FZ5AHBS7HHWZO3EXLMX}

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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	2026-05-18T04:21:51.879258Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

040be9dbc5cf4070cbe73db2ed92eb65df849b83ba29733cc909ed97d4246375

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0511231 · arxiv_version: physics/0511231v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0511231 · pith_short_12: AQF6TW6FZ5AH · pith_short_16: AQF6TW6FZ5AHBS7H · pith_short_8: AQF6TW6F

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/AQF6TW6FZ5AHBS7HHWZO3EXLMX \
  | 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: 040be9dbc5cf4070cbe73db2ed92eb65df849b83ba29733cc909ed97d4246375

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6c33963db8615efd79dcd9dfb9a00e1e16e3cbaf4790fcdc1cdd7865a35d7eac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph",
      "astro-ph.IM"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2005-11-28T15:26:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aac32d612738c118446f17db977d14f98b8301b51bf65a31bd3efb50f9372c2e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0511231",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}