Pith Number

pith:M5RG4YED

pith:2014:M5RG4YEDF6L5IAKYRNDR4TQBE2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Divergence of an orbital-angular-momentum-carrying beam upon propagation

Anton Zeilinger, Filippo M. Miatto, Martin Lavery, Miles J. Padgett, Robert W. Boyd

arxiv:1410.8722 v1 · 2014-10-31 · quant-ph · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M5RG4YEDF6L5IAKYRNDR4TQBE2}

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4 Citations open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:41:36.498932Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

67626e60832f97d401588b471e4e0126858677c4df2522ece3e354214ca51d9d

Aliases

arxiv: 1410.8722 · arxiv_version: 1410.8722v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1410.8722 · pith_short_12: M5RG4YEDF6L5 · pith_short_16: M5RG4YEDF6L5IAKY · pith_short_8: M5RG4YED

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/M5RG4YEDF6L5IAKYRNDR4TQBE2 \
  | 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: 67626e60832f97d401588b471e4e0126858677c4df2522ece3e354214ca51d9d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1ded3730c94bfebb4ca8a7d4bc43374820d09d8bea45310ecb3e8ced560499da",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-10-31T12:31:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3d93c3eff9a07b0c70851369a5263936d9c0dab777fcc99ba69672b8d8949140"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1410.8722",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}