Pith Number

pith:R4HVSHON

pith:2016:R4HVSHONG7QBZX2IYF7QZHMZNB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Rigorous Diffraction Interface Theory

Christopher M. Roberts, Viktor A Podolskiy

arxiv:1612.07759 v1 · 2016-12-22 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R4HVSHONG7QBZX2IYF7QZHMZNB}

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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	2026-05-18T00:43:56.090727Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8f0f591dcd37e01cdf48c17f0c9d99685e97aa201bcddca04cbf9dcd39396341

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.07759 · arxiv_version: 1612.07759v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.07759 · pith_short_12: R4HVSHONG7QB · pith_short_16: R4HVSHONG7QBZX2I · pith_short_8: R4HVSHON

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/R4HVSHONG7QBZX2IYF7QZHMZNB \
  | 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: 8f0f591dcd37e01cdf48c17f0c9d99685e97aa201bcddca04cbf9dcd39396341

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d5ab670f8aa1b04376d1d7960f8dd7007d593b1d633c6fd65ac0d6543fc37d86",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-22T19:23:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0419ec89bb4d8b522251feb4c54585b64ae5b7b31b08aaface7e67899cfbcc4b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.07759",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}