Pith Number

pith:PCN5PVPG

pith:2012:PCN5PVPG4HVIJMIOFPUWNPYLUN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Optical extinction in a single layer of nanorods

Gr\'egory Vincent, Jean-Luc Pelouard, Marine Laroche, Nathalie Bardou, Petru Ghenuche, Riad Ha\"idar, St\'ephane Collin

arxiv:1204.4937 v1 · 2012-04-22 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PCN5PVPG4HVIJMIOFPUWNPYLUN}

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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	2026-05-18T01:57:47.586449Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

789bd7d5e6e1ea84b10e2be966bf0ba35e4488ff453eafc82ccdf22a7bab4568

Aliases

arxiv: 1204.4937 · arxiv_version: 1204.4937v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.4937 · pith_short_12: PCN5PVPG4HVI · pith_short_16: PCN5PVPG4HVIJMIO · pith_short_8: PCN5PVPG

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/PCN5PVPG4HVIJMIOFPUWNPYLUN \
  | 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: 789bd7d5e6e1ea84b10e2be966bf0ba35e4488ff453eafc82ccdf22a7bab4568

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2648b1709bacc923015b089eb9a4b301e22669bcc9d1774d752bd3bc24ebee06",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2012-04-22T21:01:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9592d59794e20776dbff82450189d3204e0a21413630d3e64c20327317e34520"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1204.4937",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}