Pith Number

pith:NB3GSG6A

pith:2017:NB3GSG6AFEYWAY72G4W2ZPTULK

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Optical momentum and angular momentum in complex media: From the Abraham-Minkowski debate to unusual properties of surface plasmon-polaritons

Aleksandr Y. Bekshaev, Franco Nori, Konstantin Y. Bliokh

arxiv:1706.05493 v3 · 2017-06-17 · physics.optics

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\pithnumber{NB3GSG6AFEYWAY72G4W2ZPTULK}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:28:32.045969Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6876691bc029316063fa372dacbe745ab3e025f6073e41fde50e199401f599cd

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.05493 · arxiv_version: 1706.05493v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.05493 · pith_short_12: NB3GSG6AFEYW · pith_short_16: NB3GSG6AFEYWAY72 · pith_short_8: NB3GSG6A

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NB3GSG6AFEYWAY72G4W2ZPTULK \
  | 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: 6876691bc029316063fa372dacbe745ab3e025f6073e41fde50e199401f599cd

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-17T08:47:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "05be15705265a302dee06ca9a0cb7b0ebf8886cdf2f0e693af790834c0cb014a"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1706.05493",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}