Pith Number

pith:H4CNZXBW

pith:2003:H4CNZXBWQNO5Z7V4DUI3SU3SFG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Two dimensional modulational instability in photorefractive media

Glen McCarthy, M. Saffman, Wieslaw Kr\'olikowski

arxiv:physics/0311070 v1 · 2003-11-14 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{H4CNZXBWQNO5Z7V4DUI3SU3SFG}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T04:17:54.266117Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3f04dcdc36835ddcfebc1d11b95372299e85366d3441aa8ff703830e208ae5e8

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0311070 · arxiv_version: physics/0311070v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0311070 · pith_short_12: H4CNZXBWQNO5 · pith_short_16: H4CNZXBWQNO5Z7V4 · pith_short_8: H4CNZXBW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/H4CNZXBWQNO5Z7V4DUI3SU3SFG \
  | 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: 3f04dcdc36835ddcfebc1d11b95372299e85366d3441aa8ff703830e208ae5e8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b38a410f7c6a9f0151ce47e5530dc072aa2057b90b45828228b97e172a90f2ca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2003-11-14T20:37:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "63c885169895ab2f3c4491ce9893522bba6e593b13a7bc3069fe9b4f428bd954"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0311070",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}