Pith Number

pith:I3TINVIV

pith:2015:I3TINVIV6J2RR4HPDN4PK55Y74

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An effective medium theory for predicting the existence of surface states

Anan Fang, C. T. Chan, Meng Xiao, Xueqin Huang

arxiv:1511.03400 v1 · 2015-11-11 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I3TINVIV6J2RR4HPDN4PK55Y74}

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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	2026-05-18T01:18:30.858776Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

46e686d515f27518f0ef1b78f577b8ff0dee2328c4a6a8216057197a3852b083

Aliases

arxiv: 1511.03400 · arxiv_version: 1511.03400v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.03400 · pith_short_12: I3TINVIV6J2R · pith_short_16: I3TINVIV6J2RR4HP · pith_short_8: I3TINVIV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/I3TINVIV6J2RR4HPDN4PK55Y74 \
  | 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: 46e686d515f27518f0ef1b78f577b8ff0dee2328c4a6a8216057197a3852b083

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a31b68fe4aee3e85dc78aa3248b513ed1f9fc0ee8270f8a5460ff4864d41fd3a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2015-11-11T06:50:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e69acdb72b198a94df16b7bc855cdc0a559aa249f4b2ce2a4fcbfd9a37e23418"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1511.03400",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}