Pith Number

pith:HLZA5VTK

pith:2017:HLZA5VTK3LC3FLOFAGWCXW5SL5

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Mass-polariton theory of light in dispersive media

Jukka Tulkki, Mikko Partanen

arxiv:1710.06322 v2 · 2017-10-17 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HLZA5VTK3LC3FLOFAGWCXW5SL5}

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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	2026-05-18T00:26:53.881240Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3af20ed66adac5b2adc501ac2bdbb25f4b0690b3566cf5d134695e5fdd5b72fb

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.06322 · arxiv_version: 1710.06322v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.06322 · pith_short_12: HLZA5VTK3LC3 · pith_short_16: HLZA5VTK3LC3FLOF · pith_short_8: HLZA5VTK

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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/HLZA5VTK3LC3FLOFAGWCXW5SL5 \
  | 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: 3af20ed66adac5b2adc501ac2bdbb25f4b0690b3566cf5d134695e5fdd5b72fb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b2c1d161dbc9b6303c6586156a00af63f39c6f14c43cbe31c08e9c6aab07322e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-17T14:51:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "11c2d27798215d5c15d965e25ec5863c061feaa6fb1904ad423e92a45f901acd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.06322",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}