Pith Number

pith:BZA5OTAG

pith:2018:BZA5OTAGZVG2EVL2HUQILXVTID

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Hermite-Gaussian mode sorter

Alan E. Willner, Jiapeng Zhao, Mohammad Mirhosseini, Robert W. Boyd, Seyed Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani, Yiyu Zhou, Zhimin Shi, Ziyi Zhu

arxiv:1810.00229 v1 · 2018-09-29 · physics.optics · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BZA5OTAGZVG2EVL2HUQILXVTID}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:01:06.712758Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0e41d74c06cd4da2557a3d2085deb340d847224c105f754e821a3e849ef9d84b

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.00229 · arxiv_version: 1810.00229v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.00229 · pith_short_12: BZA5OTAGZVG2 · pith_short_16: BZA5OTAGZVG2EVL2 · pith_short_8: BZA5OTAG

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/BZA5OTAGZVG2EVL2HUQILXVTID \
  | 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: 0e41d74c06cd4da2557a3d2085deb340d847224c105f754e821a3e849ef9d84b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "03ecfd1201937d5efd2a1357406caea189251c745f87a5f8040ffc0ffa68684e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-29T16:17:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "260d04557b3365e34b8ecc1c05cd52d71f7d041ece4a1d92bc24b0c7c70b7d30"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.00229",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}