Pith Number

pith:KU3ASHZP

pith:2017:KU3ASHZPC5I42OMC6Z2ABFP35Z

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Quantum theory of structured monochromatic light

Alexander Punnoose, Jiufeng J. Tu

arxiv:1710.07137 v1 · 2017-10-19 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KU3ASHZPC5I42OMC6Z2ABFP35Z}

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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	2026-05-18T00:32:26.888757Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5536091f2f1751cd3982f6740095fbee4a6fa3205c3b2df28337771bf57a3421

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.07137 · arxiv_version: 1710.07137v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.07137 · pith_short_12: KU3ASHZPC5I4 · pith_short_16: KU3ASHZPC5I42OMC · pith_short_8: KU3ASHZP

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/KU3ASHZPC5I42OMC6Z2ABFP35Z \
  | 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: 5536091f2f1751cd3982f6740095fbee4a6fa3205c3b2df28337771bf57a3421

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "da530375d7225da761bc7f77012c2b06e9c781264d91ecafbd5ffef719a4ff32",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-19T13:35:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "de8dfbc2a0c9756615f8b6a0fe5f32d102c5f0ba97aa27b79060d315eb97de7b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.07137",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}