Pith Number

pith:JUXYOWZX

pith:2014:JUXYOWZXKG7LIWFLSLV4YNWHBW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Paraxial ray optics cloaking

John C. Howell, Joseph S. Choi

arxiv:1409.4705 v2 · 2014-09-16 · physics.optics

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JUXYOWZXKG7LIWFLSLV4YNWHBW}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T02:25:19.811149Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4d2f875b3751beb458ab92ebcc36c70dae18fcce8a7b2f129dab8cd917608be5

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.4705 · arxiv_version: 1409.4705v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.4705 · pith_short_12: JUXYOWZXKG7L · pith_short_16: JUXYOWZXKG7LIWFL · pith_short_8: JUXYOWZX

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/JUXYOWZXKG7LIWFLSLV4YNWHBW \
  | 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: 4d2f875b3751beb458ab92ebcc36c70dae18fcce8a7b2f129dab8cd917608be5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "00b8e1c0cd24411c7aef4e41bcdb0f8993fefaee6a02bad2d9034fa6c2c5216e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-16T17:13:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "adc10a36265818305bfc63ba8d8b59420ff77cd1ca15e73954afcb1a2d2997b5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.4705",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}