Pith Number

pith:BAVSKIQQ

pith:2017:BAVSKIQQY73ANRODIVBH33757U

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Reflection from a multi-species material and its transmitted effective wavenumber

Artur L. Gower, Ian David Abrahams, Michael J.A. Smith, William J. Parnell

arxiv:1712.05427 v3 · 2017-12-14 · physics.class-ph · physics.app-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BAVSKIQQY73ANRODIVBH33757U}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:16:29.744071Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

082b252210c7f606c5c345427deffdfd1453407a52847dacbb0ebe23a63f08c3

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.05427 · arxiv_version: 1712.05427v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.05427 · pith_short_12: BAVSKIQQY73A · pith_short_16: BAVSKIQQY73ANROD · pith_short_8: BAVSKIQQ

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/BAVSKIQQY73ANRODIVBH33757U \
  | 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: 082b252210c7f606c5c345427deffdfd1453407a52847dacbb0ebe23a63f08c3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bcebf481ca7a8a020dca16825a607ed8757a6091c18f5a0e30894d39e41982f9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.app-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.class-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-14T19:48:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7075c1f20d20f1d8ba978bef7f641a1ce776677752ec57022e39d7011ea4c72a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.05427",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}