Pith Number

pith:BIGCX6F2

pith:2016:BIGCX6F2BI7BBWY4MXAOR35HXC

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Beating Rayleigh's Curse by Imaging Using Phase Information

Aephraim M. Steinberg, Hugo Ferretti, Weng Kian Tham

arxiv:1606.02666 v2 · 2016-06-08 · physics.optics · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BIGCX6F2BI7BBWY4MXAOR35HXC}

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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	2026-05-18T00:50:22.212610Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0a0c2bf8ba0a3e10db1c65c0e8efa7b8944d14b8bcb9300c5cf3912f06889906

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.02666 · arxiv_version: 1606.02666v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.02666 · pith_short_12: BIGCX6F2BI7B · pith_short_16: BIGCX6F2BI7BBWY4 · pith_short_8: BIGCX6F2

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/BIGCX6F2BI7BBWY4MXAOR35HXC \
  | 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: 0a0c2bf8ba0a3e10db1c65c0e8efa7b8944d14b8bcb9300c5cf3912f06889906

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b08e8ce07562be8f3bf7555f2838ee3d2aa4a2dec2be6b351f6c199fe52dde7e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-08T18:07:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "41d6e67179d329f0640c9ad0ab950639bb43f480b0d9c7370be8b2ed11627c99"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.02666",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}