Pith Number

pith:S4GVD6EP

pith:2013:S4GVD6EPQJC5HV7ZFD4TGMLPUD

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Dirac Kirchhoff diffraction theory

Bart Partoens, Jo Verbeeck, Ruben Van Boxem

arxiv:1303.0954 v1 · 2013-03-05 · quant-ph · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{S4GVD6EPQJC5HV7ZFD4TGMLPUD}

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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	2026-05-18T03:31:53.367439Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

970d51f88f8245d3d7f928f933316fa0cc86d8dafa484a7fbbd9270508921826

Aliases

arxiv: 1303.0954 · arxiv_version: 1303.0954v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1303.0954 · pith_short_12: S4GVD6EPQJC5 · pith_short_16: S4GVD6EPQJC5HV7Z · pith_short_8: S4GVD6EP

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/S4GVD6EPQJC5HV7ZFD4TGMLPUD \
  | 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: 970d51f88f8245d3d7f928f933316fa0cc86d8dafa484a7fbbd9270508921826

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "db592133a8e30d485626bbd3b0952fb7431125493994cf590c2c2239ce1f9b12",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-03-05T08:28:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6a0355c3e3f288a59c4fc904ac2f25f782240924e10b97d8c600bb4845516e32"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1303.0954",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}