Pith Number

pith:FKMKDQ63

pith:2016:FKMKDQ63WZLUWSYLGSK32FQVFA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Iteratively seeded mode-locking

Perry S. Edwards, Victor G. Bucklew, William H. Renninger, Zhiwen Liu

arxiv:1612.04296 v3 · 2016-12-13 · physics.optics

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FKMKDQ63WZLUWSYLGSK32FQVFA}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:39:00.778263Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2a98a1c3dbb6574b4b0b3495bd1615283cfa9c22414f9aba65c67152972bfc84

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.04296 · arxiv_version: 1612.04296v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.04296 · pith_short_12: FKMKDQ63WZLU · pith_short_16: FKMKDQ63WZLUWSYL · pith_short_8: FKMKDQ63

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/FKMKDQ63WZLUWSYLGSK32FQVFA \
  | 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: 2a98a1c3dbb6574b4b0b3495bd1615283cfa9c22414f9aba65c67152972bfc84

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7bc8c2cd4715b359def65009303823e5488c29fd1205a7f08375d9113f0fd588",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-13T17:33:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a39cdcc7c4200a2715bd0d81a95d0fab72ead279e5329de367ab74475dc1e42e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.04296",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}