Pith Number

pith:K6JMS6F2

pith:2017:K6JMS6F2YXFCNY4V6BSPYIM4O7

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Optical emission near a high-impedance mirror

Alberto G. Curto, Majid Esfandyarpour, Mark L. Brongersma, Nader Engheta, Pieter G. Kik

arxiv:1708.01314 v1 · 2017-08-03 · physics.optics

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{K6JMS6F2YXFCNY4V6BSPYIM4O7}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:06:41.615587Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5792c978bac5ca26e395f064fc219c77f72ffcad54fbb3af1d94b18f60047795

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.01314 · arxiv_version: 1708.01314v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.01314 · pith_short_12: K6JMS6F2YXFC · pith_short_16: K6JMS6F2YXFCNY4V · pith_short_8: K6JMS6F2

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/K6JMS6F2YXFCNY4V6BSPYIM4O7 \
  | 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: 5792c978bac5ca26e395f064fc219c77f72ffcad54fbb3af1d94b18f60047795

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7961623ac3123ffba30344b9fca1e2a8b158f5f19914c0b8950a0256c9282174",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-03T21:30:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cc1fb24bf030616a580a2fcc06b6024a3a1e8c65a70c8fc0e2d788034576d394"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.01314",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}