Pith Number

pith:ARNJYA3K

pith:2003:ARNJYA3KCWL2FOL3JCXUETMKHL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Reflection and refraction of electromagnetic waves at the plane boundary between two chiral media

Jose F. Nieves, Palash B. Pal

arxiv:physics/0302070 v1 · 2003-02-20 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ARNJYA3KCWL2FOL3JCXUETMKHL}

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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	2026-07-04T14:43:53.331017Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

045a9c036a1597a2b97b48af424d8a3afe28794ad62a86fc5ffd859bc27e07e3

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0302070 · arxiv_version: physics/0302070v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0302070 · pith_short_12: ARNJYA3KCWL2 · pith_short_16: ARNJYA3KCWL2FOL3 · pith_short_8: ARNJYA3K

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ARNJYA3KCWL2FOL3JCXUETMKHL \
  | 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: 045a9c036a1597a2b97b48af424d8a3afe28794ad62a86fc5ffd859bc27e07e3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f73fceb685add955b8d7898e750bbe2c633a64b529312fa877fd3023fea2e0a4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2003-02-20T13:57:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f8d0a5a44bceb44766d4b025959372bfbb1a43a70c92fc2d9e7f07a573976af5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0302070",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}