Pith Number

pith:G4X6FUA2

pith:2018:G4X6FUA2OSE46CQZ5SDNUUQ56P

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Light Reconfigurable Geometric Phase Optical Element with Multi-stable States

Alwin Ming-Wai Tam, Dong Shen, Engle Liao, Hoi-Sing Kwok, Ka Chun Cheung, Quan Li, Vladimir Chigrinov, Wei Hu, Wei-Qiang Yang, Xiao-Qian Wang, Yanqing Lu, Zhi-gang Zheng

arxiv:1810.05491 v2 · 2018-10-12 · physics.optics

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\pithnumber{G4X6FUA2OSE46CQZ5SDNUUQ56P}

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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	2026-05-18T00:02:59.283226Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

372fe2d01a7489cf0a19ec86da521df3d6c26778aa8674183280a31a6c321113

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.05491 · arxiv_version: 1810.05491v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.05491 · pith_short_12: G4X6FUA2OSE4 · pith_short_16: G4X6FUA2OSE46CQZ · pith_short_8: G4X6FUA2

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/G4X6FUA2OSE46CQZ5SDNUUQ56P \
  | 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: 372fe2d01a7489cf0a19ec86da521df3d6c26778aa8674183280a31a6c321113

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "43979c303e8de1e699b5bcfe821d2837c1230e0bb9448b5f8a56fc1dbe727ea0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-12T13:15:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8def29f238a9c18277ba316d1f49706c617ff7ea1ddf1e09fe9a67c7d9f43ea7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.05491",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}