Pith Number

pith:NM7YJKLS

pith:2018:NM7YJKLSP765BPFBUS4K6G2DAZ

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A hybrid inversion scheme combining Markov chain Monte Carlo and iterative methods for determining optical properties of random media

Gen Nakamura, Manabu Machida, Yoko Hoshi, Yu Jiang

arxiv:1802.00638 v2 · 2018-02-02 · physics.comp-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NM7YJKLSP765BPFBUS4K6G2DAZ}

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First computed	2026-07-04T23:59:27.094548Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6b3f84a9727ffdd0bca1a4b8af1b430672dc5ef1e430af5d6f28fcebe8421071

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.00638 · arxiv_version: 1802.00638v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.00638 · pith_short_12: NM7YJKLSP765 · pith_short_16: NM7YJKLSP765BPFB · pith_short_8: NM7YJKLS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NM7YJKLSP765BPFBUS4K6G2DAZ \
  | 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: 6b3f84a9727ffdd0bca1a4b8af1b430672dc5ef1e430af5d6f28fcebe8421071

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "05536b821e5382f68f26f345edb0c40879705d59d45730e1c1f58f8640cbe571",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.comp-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-02T11:08:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ae02c9d9653d0a241ad27f41678a244d4d433414faeee4c298f799ec301f559a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.00638",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}