Pith Number

pith:CF5MDKHY

pith:2017:CF5MDKHYTLY7UZXTVKMBAA5FZV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Polarization Coherence Theorem

A.N. Vamivakas, J.H. Eberly, X.-F. Qian

arxiv:1712.10046 v1 · 2017-12-28 · physics.optics · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CF5MDKHYTLY7UZXTVKMBAA5FZV}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:27:04.130768Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

117ac1a8f89af1fa66f3aa981003a5cd66599d8e80aa1b2fbaea6464b05ff4ca

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.10046 · arxiv_version: 1712.10046v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.10046 · pith_short_12: CF5MDKHYTLY7 · pith_short_16: CF5MDKHYTLY7UZXT · pith_short_8: CF5MDKHY

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/CF5MDKHYTLY7UZXTVKMBAA5FZV \
  | 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: 117ac1a8f89af1fa66f3aa981003a5cd66599d8e80aa1b2fbaea6464b05ff4ca

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "38934a60560f10c6660e13b833b1aa3a1a5650765d270a0829771a30ad0cf082",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-28T20:17:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e37f77403c1c599017e23af2aab8f0d94388e120140ccef1d0d6a258526d2a78"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.10046",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}