Pith Number

pith:Q2CDOLW3

pith:2017:Q2CDOLW3PSS3ELD22VPC7X3D7P

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Near-field edge fringes at sharp material boundaries

Mark I. Stockman, Sampath Gamage, Viktoriia E. Babicheva, Yohannes Abate

arxiv:1707.08686 v1 · 2017-07-27 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q2CDOLW3PSS3ELD22VPC7X3D7P}

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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	2026-05-18T00:04:13.612400Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8684372edb7ca5b22c7ad55e2fdf63fbd5745371bae4ccb2e772d7b8bb031392

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.08686 · arxiv_version: 1707.08686v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.08686 · pith_short_12: Q2CDOLW3PSS3 · pith_short_16: Q2CDOLW3PSS3ELD2 · pith_short_8: Q2CDOLW3

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/Q2CDOLW3PSS3ELD22VPC7X3D7P \
  | 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: 8684372edb7ca5b22c7ad55e2fdf63fbd5745371bae4ccb2e772d7b8bb031392

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "333d41373cc3df8aa8658fee1ba54eff12e4bdb0b8e0fac90ae6463eab5876bc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-27T02:15:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c88efe264ae19c9972c0de10f7fceeba0e6071847f64f8c11eb87da29925ab53"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.08686",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}