Pith Number

pith:B5YYTLDZ

pith:2015:B5YYTLDZHNPHSMDPHZ4CMKSB32

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Transverse Anderson localization of light: a tutorial review

Arash Mafi

arxiv:1505.01109 v2 · 2015-05-05 · physics.optics

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B5YYTLDZHNPHSMDPHZ4CMKSB32}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:57:18.728549Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0f7189ac793b5e79306f3e78262a41dea76fc69022d59d560e4255902d22efcd

Aliases

arxiv: 1505.01109 · arxiv_version: 1505.01109v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1505.01109 · pith_short_12: B5YYTLDZHNPH · pith_short_16: B5YYTLDZHNPHSMDP · pith_short_8: B5YYTLDZ

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/B5YYTLDZHNPHSMDPHZ4CMKSB32 \
  | 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: 0f7189ac793b5e79306f3e78262a41dea76fc69022d59d560e4255902d22efcd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f8d8a99b46bc9dac00922a8b4bdb91755fae09923edfbf621b113cf1da44d227",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2015-05-05T18:22:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "44979fb6a765236e6676b60affe824dcc2772013b0f3820afc1ea56490e4ac95"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1505.01109",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}