Pith Number

pith:RBL256ZA

pith:2012:RBL256ZAD3IJP4Z7DYBOIW5AP5

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Light Transport in Random Media with ${\cal PT}$-Symmetry

Samuel Kalish, Tsampikos Kottos, Zin Lin

arxiv:1205.1849 v1 · 2012-05-09 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RBL256ZAD3IJP4Z7DYBOIW5AP5}

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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	2026-05-18T03:55:58.541697Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8857aefb201ed097f33f1e02e45ba07f601d3b97e933960f8c68df5e8d079af3

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.1849 · arxiv_version: 1205.1849v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.1849 · pith_short_12: RBL256ZAD3IJ · pith_short_16: RBL256ZAD3IJP4Z7 · pith_short_8: RBL256ZA

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/RBL256ZAD3IJP4Z7DYBOIW5AP5 \
  | 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: 8857aefb201ed097f33f1e02e45ba07f601d3b97e933960f8c68df5e8d079af3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aa5454cef33d184535ab4892c93f320a2ec5468586858bc3724acb75b0397dd2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-09T00:18:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6e646cd703c2316c7ee84aa353d8e0130c897d7c3e87f57d4e5ab492dbf9c2d2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.1849",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}