Pith Number

pith:FTGVDRRK

pith:2018:FTGVDRRKPTOXBALEOQ4HNZZZKS

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Arago Optics: Maximal Confinement of Traveling Waves

David Tanner, Leizhi Wang, Michael Wescott, Ming Yin, Timir Datta

arxiv:1805.06770 v1 · 2018-05-15 · physics.gen-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FTGVDRRKPTOXBALEOQ4HNZZZKS}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:15:43.403507Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2ccd51c62a7cdd708164743876e73954ab436559b005d88b80ff679a8b698313

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.06770 · arxiv_version: 1805.06770v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.06770 · pith_short_12: FTGVDRRKPTOX · pith_short_16: FTGVDRRKPTOXBALE · pith_short_8: FTGVDRRK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FTGVDRRKPTOXBALEOQ4HNZZZKS \
  | 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: 2ccd51c62a7cdd708164743876e73954ab436559b005d88b80ff679a8b698313

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "353ad5f3a94bd9bed65ebb33a5ffa4159a89a4c24aca7e6e8dde193fdeba0a31",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-15T17:40:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "44e2df0848c0e87bd400d8d730e1fe2fc63e20ac6c461d78368c9b3f575f9a35"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.06770",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}