Pith Number

pith:BL23LNYF

pith:2005:BL23LNYFIBB5PPU53LNX6M4LH2

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Time-Resolved Ring Structure of Backscattered Circularly Polarized Beams from Forward Scattering Media

Kevin G. Phillips, Min Xu, R.R. Alfano, S.K. Gayen

arxiv:physics/0508103 v1 · 2005-08-16 · physics.optics

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\pithnumber{BL23LNYFIBB5PPU53LNX6M4LH2}

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First computed	2026-07-04T16:57:17.938275Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0af5b5b7054043d7be9ddadb7f338b3e890903d44a0a13e773539609fd9f85d3

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0508103 · arxiv_version: physics/0508103v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0508103 · pith_short_12: BL23LNYFIBB5 · pith_short_16: BL23LNYFIBB5PPU5 · pith_short_8: BL23LNYF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BL23LNYFIBB5PPU53LNX6M4LH2 \
  | 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: 0af5b5b7054043d7be9ddadb7f338b3e890903d44a0a13e773539609fd9f85d3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3c2038a6a0bac94ce1f1ee9e64c1ec41a19099153862014f055aeaff2f6d8971",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2005-08-16T17:43:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c25c1be4964992519da933f7d2e5a1293f4d9c94b0aba93b802dd133d73f54f0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0508103",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}