Pith Number

pith:OPCYI5A5

pith:2017:OPCYI5A5PB2CGGEWJBWICUBDPJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Super defocusing of light by optical sub-oscillations

Alon Bahabad, Yaniv Eliezer

arxiv:1701.04755 v1 · 2017-01-17 · physics.optics · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OPCYI5A5PB2CGGEWJBWICUBDPJ}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:31:51.576151Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

73c584741d7874231896486c8150237a6b679e968256e4e6261d69703b26bfe5

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.04755 · arxiv_version: 1701.04755v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.04755 · pith_short_12: OPCYI5A5PB2C · pith_short_16: OPCYI5A5PB2CGGEW · pith_short_8: OPCYI5A5

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OPCYI5A5PB2CGGEWJBWICUBDPJ \
  | 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: 73c584741d7874231896486c8150237a6b679e968256e4e6261d69703b26bfe5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d4f7c4c1060adff6f5504694fa0038c4bb47b567439137d1fb6295dcd6d17256",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-17T16:46:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "83ef80bd851f9b7b78b622fafbf41bb40ce0a34035e01b5d805293ec58c7d9b8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.04755",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}