Pith Number

pith:BKPLZQL4

pith:2016:BKPLZQL47BUELIPAKJGN52AA5F

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Synthesis of passive lossless metasurfaces using auxiliary fields for reflectionless beam splitting and perfect reflection

Ariel Epstein, George V. Eleftheriades

arxiv:1607.02954 v2 · 2016-07-11 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BKPLZQL47BUELIPAKJGN52AA5F}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:54:20.125989Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0a9ebcc17cf86845a1e0524cdee800e9603613b990b5a32d5bf6a0cf4ac30036

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.02954 · arxiv_version: 1607.02954v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.02954 · pith_short_12: BKPLZQL47BUE · pith_short_16: BKPLZQL47BUELIPA · pith_short_8: BKPLZQL4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BKPLZQL47BUELIPAKJGN52AA5F \
  | 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: 0a9ebcc17cf86845a1e0524cdee800e9603613b990b5a32d5bf6a0cf4ac30036

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9965430ade140e92826fc141a1443f63e6892b499f93477a0ab1898ab8a49070",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-11T13:59:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9670bec8a18bce1ce89ce66924f9e14d87f236b3f0542dc3a007ca73f0b3fe3e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.02954",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}