Pith Number

pith:BV7CDWFG

pith:2017:BV7CDWFGZPCEKT22CANNKEQOFB

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Direct manipulation of wave amplitude and phase through inverse design of isotropic media

B. Vial, S. A. R. Horsley, T. G. Philbin, Yangji\'e Liu, Y. Hao

arxiv:1701.06021 v2 · 2017-01-21 · physics.class-ph · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BV7CDWFGZPCEKT22CANNKEQOFB}

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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	2026-05-18T00:38:41.823161Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0d7e21d8a6cbc4454f5a101ad5120e286482500621cd6050384ae1d1ab58e45a

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.06021 · arxiv_version: 1701.06021v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.06021 · pith_short_12: BV7CDWFGZPCE · pith_short_16: BV7CDWFGZPCEKT22 · pith_short_8: BV7CDWFG

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/BV7CDWFGZPCEKT22CANNKEQOFB \
  | 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: 0d7e21d8a6cbc4454f5a101ad5120e286482500621cd6050384ae1d1ab58e45a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0aea6fae0bcf99eb721e83cf02b15180378490d0d7bd9317cb3604df844b9945",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.class-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-21T13:09:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c86a9e4d029e4e07ccd18c1c6896a9c9efbe8f423fc40c30a58be3ea72b4b0a3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.06021",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}