Pith Number

pith:MU3MVFIR

pith:2016:MU3MVFIRSKT5ZKQHFAOQSLFZ4H

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Ata Mahjoubfar, Bahram Jalali, Daniel R. Solli, Jacky C.K. Chan, Mohammad H. Asghari

arxiv:1612.04562 v2 · 2016-12-14 · physics.optics · physics.ins-det

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MU3MVFIRSKT5ZKQHFAOQSLFZ4H}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T00:30:17.346012Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6536ca951192a7dcaa07281d092cb9e1fb947ade1494e7ab680fcb47927ce7f0

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.04562 · arxiv_version: 1612.04562v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.04562 · pith_short_12: MU3MVFIRSKT5 · pith_short_16: MU3MVFIRSKT5ZKQH · pith_short_8: MU3MVFIR

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/MU3MVFIRSKT5ZKQHFAOQSLFZ4H \
  | 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: 6536ca951192a7dcaa07281d092cb9e1fb947ade1494e7ab680fcb47927ce7f0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9e50a3705869165068bfb1c69b355891e65bff5e3d5596f00134a9a80126e910",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.ins-det"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-14T10:21:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "21f51476b3f7351d09b7f50db6f07ad26cb7a181f67ccce1b8f8494f905eb71f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.04562",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}