Pith Number

pith:LYNPTAQV

pith:2012:LYNPTAQVWPD7PA7MJNWNVVLTF5

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Gaussian Beams in Near-Zero Transition Metamaterials

Fatema Alali, Natalia M. Litchinitser

arxiv:1208.0372 v1 · 2012-08-01 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LYNPTAQVWPD7PA7MJNWNVVLTF5}

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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	2026-05-18T01:55:24.039986Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5e1af98215b3c7f783ec4b6cdad5732f52b875fac1aaefa27fc7b2a72695caef

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.0372 · arxiv_version: 1208.0372v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.0372 · pith_short_12: LYNPTAQVWPD7 · pith_short_16: LYNPTAQVWPD7PA7M · pith_short_8: LYNPTAQV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LYNPTAQVWPD7PA7MJNWNVVLTF5 \
  | 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: 5e1af98215b3c7f783ec4b6cdad5732f52b875fac1aaefa27fc7b2a72695caef

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e824b1ead7cfa539b3c20c7d96a439fa910529816b8c23b4bc231845a9737ae8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-01T22:28:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c07b6fedef60759b4333178202493407c203bb19ead7c79f69b2816bb70d3b1e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.0372",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}