Pith Number

pith:CTO3OREJ

pith:2016:CTO3OREJ4KM6EFCRR7IP7DXHCJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A class of invisible inhomogeneous media and the control of electromagnetic waves

Benjamin Vial, Simon A.R. Horsley, Thomas G. Philbin, Yang Hao, Yangjie Liu

arxiv:1608.05642 v2 · 2016-08-19 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CTO3OREJ4KM6EFCRR7IP7DXHCJ}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T00:54:19.788673Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

14ddb74489e299e214518fd0ff8ee71262a6fe8edef482bb6844e0a02d70864d

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.05642 · arxiv_version: 1608.05642v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.05642 · pith_short_12: CTO3OREJ4KM6 · pith_short_16: CTO3OREJ4KM6EFCR · pith_short_8: CTO3OREJ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/CTO3OREJ4KM6EFCRR7IP7DXHCJ \
  | 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: 14ddb74489e299e214518fd0ff8ee71262a6fe8edef482bb6844e0a02d70864d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f7da5622952a4d8f2b6e9b2b9225520c2c7e84f2fef4770e4cad177a66f06985",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-19T15:42:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "255439d60a38e68eead83ec7ae4c76e530f6b35bd721438f74dea417e5b6bb32"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.05642",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}