Pith Number

pith:IXKX3RW4

pith:2010:IXKX3RW4ASL4VQHUNNI5TNCXVT

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Fundamental Limits of "Ankylography" due to Dimensional Deficiency

Haiqing Wei

arxiv:1001.4594 v1 · 2010-01-26 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IXKX3RW4ASL4VQHUNNI5TNCXVT}

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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	2026-05-18T02:09:29.967011Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

45d57dc6dc0497cac0f46b51d9b457acd205afce647ffa356f47602917db5c36

Aliases

arxiv: 1001.4594 · arxiv_version: 1001.4594v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1001.4594 · pith_short_12: IXKX3RW4ASL4 · pith_short_16: IXKX3RW4ASL4VQHU · pith_short_8: IXKX3RW4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IXKX3RW4ASL4VQHUNNI5TNCXVT \
  | 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: 45d57dc6dc0497cac0f46b51d9b457acd205afce647ffa356f47602917db5c36

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "27977ecb2669560a46669783769b723a02f2ba0799bde53acb3a3609f23d70a2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2010-01-26T05:29:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "da1a2114dd745df35c8296f238dc9f3b8b920dbf4cdfc090b909e5297eeaf9f9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1001.4594",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}