Pith Number

pith:G2Q5OM3H

pith:2015:G2Q5OM3HB7W25TERYZHYHCZTRC

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Increase of resolution by use of microspheres related to complex Snell's law and phase contrast interferometer

Y. Ben-Aryeh

arxiv:1510.07879 v3 · 2015-10-27 · physics.optics

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\pithnumber{G2Q5OM3HB7W25TERYZHYHCZTRC}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:11:18.037750Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

36a1d733670fedaecc91c64f838b338888285a28e87321aba7a1aa97f1c6f473

Aliases

arxiv: 1510.07879 · arxiv_version: 1510.07879v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1510.07879 · pith_short_12: G2Q5OM3HB7W2 · pith_short_16: G2Q5OM3HB7W25TER · pith_short_8: G2Q5OM3H

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/G2Q5OM3HB7W25TERYZHYHCZTRC \
  | 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: 36a1d733670fedaecc91c64f838b338888285a28e87321aba7a1aa97f1c6f473

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e6cf8388af27392e4a06664397fd3b6a758571c7b765835d31734c33c51cf9f6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2015-10-27T11:51:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f06064cde113c2574834e0f7593b8ca1cd0925ac7c53e365f8d6341d5379a816"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1510.07879",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}