Pith Number

pith:G4JMH57F

pith:2013:G4JMH57FO6PDPJSEALX74T7L2V

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Focusing polychromatic light through strongly scattering media

Chris Stockbridge, Hari P. Paudel, Jerome Mertz, Thomas Bifano

arxiv:1304.6674 v1 · 2013-04-24 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{G4JMH57FO6PDPJSEALX74T7L2V}

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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	2026-05-18T00:54:41.914420Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3712c3f7e5779e37a64402effe4febd5413417a428e8cc74edb0e249bbd26297

Aliases

arxiv: 1304.6674 · arxiv_version: 1304.6674v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1304.6674 · pith_short_12: G4JMH57FO6PD · pith_short_16: G4JMH57FO6PDPJSE · pith_short_8: G4JMH57F

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/G4JMH57FO6PDPJSEALX74T7L2V \
  | 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: 3712c3f7e5779e37a64402effe4febd5413417a428e8cc74edb0e249bbd26297

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8294f19bdffb4ffb6f5a5fd8ba4f239394a62b65cac389f7aa4b29ccf6f545ec",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2013-04-24T17:35:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7485ef6a48a872f1543c32dab9ec6cc5fbad255af12b10b0335850ca05853360"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1304.6674",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}