Pith Number

pith:N33KMW4K

pith:2003:N33KMW4KNUHTT24LH72DBJARX2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Molecular chirality and the orbital angular momentum of light

David L. Andrews, Luciana C. Davila Romero, Mohamed Babiker

arxiv:physics/0305002 v1 · 2003-05-01 · physics.optics · physics.chem-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{N33KMW4KNUHTT24LH72DBJARX2}

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:08.924438Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6ef6a65b8a6d0f39eb8b3ff430a411be91d7f87cbc3c74a7319d0a4c7c5441e4

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0305002 · arxiv_version: physics/0305002v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0305002 · pith_short_12: N33KMW4KNUHT · pith_short_16: N33KMW4KNUHTT24L · pith_short_8: N33KMW4K

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/N33KMW4KNUHTT24LH72DBJARX2 \
  | 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: 6ef6a65b8a6d0f39eb8b3ff430a411be91d7f87cbc3c74a7319d0a4c7c5441e4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f6467c256f7adc3f9dd6a5fd5247647ee6da5d31f7ee543a69de46d15f0497ae",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.chem-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2003-05-01T11:44:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9c5bceeb4ef6e6a5df724a88cc8a46e5e7f54e9bca5003c458f8b4db99718316"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0305002",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}