Pith Number

pith:H6VWKWAY

pith:2015:H6VWKWAYLTLI654ZV2VMTMWCHO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

What is the Brillouin Zone of an Anisotropic Photonic Crystal?

A. A. Maznev, B.K. Ofori-Okai, K. A. Nelson, P. Sivarajah

arxiv:1511.08109 v2 · 2015-11-25 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{H6VWKWAYLTLI654ZV2VMTMWCHO}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:20:33.011760Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3fab6558185cd68f7799aeaac9b2c23b8d7c5186310ebcaae2cad7d1b9c20d09

Aliases

arxiv: 1511.08109 · arxiv_version: 1511.08109v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.08109 · pith_short_12: H6VWKWAYLTLI · pith_short_16: H6VWKWAYLTLI654Z · pith_short_8: H6VWKWAY

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/H6VWKWAYLTLI654ZV2VMTMWCHO \
  | 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: 3fab6558185cd68f7799aeaac9b2c23b8d7c5186310ebcaae2cad7d1b9c20d09

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a94b6f2429edc89c0c9429d95e070dca5631a96f47c21cf870d332d1d5756539",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2015-11-25T16:37:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e3c74db2ec55eeadc52b04d972dc3bed270fe83d52010ed843a190574aa0799b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1511.08109",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}