Pith Number

pith:Q2XDYC4C

pith:2016:Q2XDYC4CIHZNXQNSXC6HM323KP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Surface-wave pulse routing around sharp corners

Baile Zhang, Zhen Gao

arxiv:1604.06872 v2 · 2016-04-23 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q2XDYC4CIHZNXQNSXC6HM323KP}

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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	2026-05-18T00:40:33.646843Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

86ae3c0b8241f2dbc1b2b8bc766f5b53fa6b762946957d108e264afce3378988

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.06872 · arxiv_version: 1604.06872v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.06872 · pith_short_12: Q2XDYC4CIHZN · pith_short_16: Q2XDYC4CIHZNXQNS · pith_short_8: Q2XDYC4C

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/Q2XDYC4CIHZNXQNSXC6HM323KP \
  | 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: 86ae3c0b8241f2dbc1b2b8bc766f5b53fa6b762946957d108e264afce3378988

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0d8656bcaf551d423afbebb1ebdbe97d219ff09229a5f64c051e4ba858a62fb7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-23T07:24:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "35f24b9503d82dbf1a5039fa9b79210ac30cdff163e4d3f2581a3912c07032a1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.06872",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}