Pith Number

pith:F6MSOF7U

pith:2004:F6MSOF7UQVXUA3MLCYLYFUN2W3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The non-Abelian state-dependent gauge field in optics

P. Leifer

arxiv:physics/0404136 v1 · 2004-04-28 · physics.gen-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{F6MSOF7UQVXUA3MLCYLYFUN2W3}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

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	2026-05-18T01:38:08.453083Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2f992717f4856f406d8b161782d1bab6c416601e8ce2831a1cbc9f64c1ba9a77

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0404136 · arxiv_version: physics/0404136v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0404136 · pith_short_12: F6MSOF7UQVXU · pith_short_16: F6MSOF7UQVXUA3ML · pith_short_8: F6MSOF7U

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/F6MSOF7UQVXUA3MLCYLYFUN2W3 \
  | 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: 2f992717f4856f406d8b161782d1bab6c416601e8ce2831a1cbc9f64c1ba9a77

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d923ae44d0ee32813ac666b87cf9c09b67cca54460a41aff587c8f0fc467167d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2004-04-28T20:25:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ceedcc24e0e8d9a8271539e91420630594d6b1821659fa532ac3b03ebf607ecf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0404136",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}