Pith Number

pith:AXWXO3MT

pith:2017:AXWXO3MTYKLQ5WH43LOQQU2GED

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Optical parallel computation similar to quantum computation based on optical fields modulated with pseudorandom phase sequences

Jian Fu

arxiv:1702.06410 v2 · 2017-02-17 · physics.gen-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AXWXO3MTYKLQ5WH43LOQQU2GED}

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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	2026-05-18T00:50:08.936639Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

05ed776d93c2970ed8fcdadd08534620f468f6dd4f349df42baa61beaea2b812

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.06410 · arxiv_version: 1702.06410v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.06410 · pith_short_12: AXWXO3MTYKLQ · pith_short_16: AXWXO3MTYKLQ5WH4 · pith_short_8: AXWXO3MT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/AXWXO3MTYKLQ5WH43LOQQU2GED \
  | 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: 05ed776d93c2970ed8fcdadd08534620f468f6dd4f349df42baa61beaea2b812

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0e9b490e444d54d4abaf7c6dadb2d0fe3c1804eb5674b920ab859199cc622845",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-17T03:01:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "00b711d4277208f7c9f0045c1a94dc7d1d441074284183600963246d85d24b85"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.06410",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}