Pith Number

pith:PMBYJA3P

pith:1996:PMBYJA3PIMJMNFOVEHF4GPLFFY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Relativistic Operator Description of Photon Polarization

Arvind, India), Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, N.Mukunda (Department of Physics

arxiv:quant-ph/9612024 v1 · 1996-12-06 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PMBYJA3PIMJMNFOVEHF4GPLFFY}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:23:59.412708Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7b0384836f4312c695d521cbc33d652e0b7ce5cd4e26c4d11b099cc078158421

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9612024 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9612024v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9612024 · pith_short_12: PMBYJA3PIMJM · pith_short_16: PMBYJA3PIMJMNFOV · pith_short_8: PMBYJA3P

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/PMBYJA3PIMJMNFOVEHF4GPLFFY \
  | 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: 7b0384836f4312c695d521cbc33d652e0b7ce5cd4e26c4d11b099cc078158421

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6db84cd00ecd89b7a77fd529f11d29ac4b2ed1698a244ba23897dc2a0270556f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-12-06T13:09:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d1f8e26671fd97cc99ab9745c3240e01bf28461b6206c63f0a2f87c66a88338f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9612024",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}