Pith Number

pith:DIVK6AUS

pith:2016:DIVK6AUSMCGUCQLVF2QFUWDQ57

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Perfect Transmission through Disordered Media

Chris King, Simon Horsley, Tom Philbin

arxiv:1612.02451 v2 · 2016-11-15 · physics.class-ph · physics.optics

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DIVK6AUSMCGUCQLVF2QFUWDQ57}

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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	2026-05-18T00:45:25.846029Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1a2aaf0292608d4141752ea05a5870efd6613ca6515757457b34f8e146d127da

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.02451 · arxiv_version: 1612.02451v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.02451 · pith_short_12: DIVK6AUSMCGU · pith_short_16: DIVK6AUSMCGUCQLV · pith_short_8: DIVK6AUS

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/DIVK6AUSMCGUCQLVF2QFUWDQ57 \
  | 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: 1a2aaf0292608d4141752ea05a5870efd6613ca6515757457b34f8e146d127da

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b0e76cd48eb1aa49b109f35469f4cc39d9405bb1578a211a4c670bc28dbcb3be",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.class-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-15T14:37:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "06c11245b57c9358c88c00d555b650de5309206226c13c4a6c09169f1e4f46aa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.02451",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}