Pith Number

pith:FK3HZ4QS

pith:2016:FK3HZ4QSLQ7QDIM7UPF3AY6VJI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Continuous generation of delayed light

David Eger, Nir Davidson, Ofer Firstenberg, Slava Smartsev

arxiv:1608.09013 v3 · 2016-08-31 · quant-ph · physics.atom-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FK3HZ4QSLQ7QDIM7UPF3AY6VJI}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:30:08.849395Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2ab67cf2125c3f01a19fa3cbb063d54a06d08f99cf12f54f99a69bd20e511809

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.09013 · arxiv_version: 1608.09013v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.09013 · pith_short_12: FK3HZ4QSLQ7Q · pith_short_16: FK3HZ4QSLQ7QDIM7 · pith_short_8: FK3HZ4QS

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/FK3HZ4QSLQ7QDIM7UPF3AY6VJI \
  | 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: 2ab67cf2125c3f01a19fa3cbb063d54a06d08f99cf12f54f99a69bd20e511809

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d13418e75d2d7e08bc5c6c8e189d90e4512748b46d58098b5e1b16f35256908a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.atom-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-31T19:53:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4262e407dccd8d44bbd6e49c0771957e01800beb5321ad2f27d5e57a06081a66"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.09013",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}