Pith Number

pith:CTGMPM4N

pith:2014:CTGMPM4N4WQZH4QF756MGUDTK6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Physical random bit generation from chaotic solitary laser diode

Emeric Mercier, Hugo Thienpont, Krassimir Panajotov, Marc Sciamanna, Martin Virte

arxiv:1406.3005 v1 · 2014-06-11 · physics.optics · nlin.CD

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CTGMPM4N4WQZH4QF756MGUDTK6}

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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	2026-05-18T02:47:43.693469Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

14ccc7b38de5a193f205ff7cc3507357a331da1a5ad4d74a1fa2fe0a9c0218f7

Aliases

arxiv: 1406.3005 · arxiv_version: 1406.3005v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.3005 · pith_short_12: CTGMPM4N4WQZ · pith_short_16: CTGMPM4N4WQZH4QF · pith_short_8: CTGMPM4N

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/CTGMPM4N4WQZH4QF756MGUDTK6 \
  | 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: 14ccc7b38de5a193f205ff7cc3507357a331da1a5ad4d74a1fa2fe0a9c0218f7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c9395183f593de2620d1af02be8359ba7e6fc1837605c35d54c912f6c58f1180",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "nlin.CD"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2014-06-11T19:33:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "011dcd182e80b3852cf7f2180a795f75961437a83ee416c1b988fc4a4b2a3308"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1406.3005",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}