Pith Number

pith:C6NYUNYF

pith:2015:C6NYUNYF673QSXFS357QE6DVZH

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A quantitative measure of carrier shocking

Paul Kinsler

arxiv:1506.02953 v2 · 2015-06-09 · physics.optics

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C6NYUNYF673QSXFS357QE6DVZH}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:33:58.267132Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

179b8a3705f7f7095cb2df7f027875c9c6e7b2b90aa6c9072ab57ae9fd0d5dfd

Aliases

arxiv: 1506.02953 · arxiv_version: 1506.02953v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.02953 · pith_short_12: C6NYUNYF673Q · pith_short_16: C6NYUNYF673QSXFS · pith_short_8: C6NYUNYF

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/C6NYUNYF673QSXFS357QE6DVZH \
  | 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: 179b8a3705f7f7095cb2df7f027875c9c6e7b2b90aa6c9072ab57ae9fd0d5dfd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f5d7696e850a2716f8ab9ca88a1b6375c82f4e11297a13430442893ab5561284",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2015-06-09T15:17:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1f9f0ef1401bf0d4e32edd10a843195d45cd8f4010655e9ed03c81b474d4b2da"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1506.02953",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}