Pith Number

pith:SBGVNAJE

pith:2017:SBGVNAJE3EZEM7CE4S6ORUSVPM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Photonic hook: A new curved light beam

Alexander S. Shalin, Igor V. Minin, James N. Monks, Liyang Yue, Oleg V. Minin, Zengbo Wang

arxiv:1712.10075 v1 · 2017-12-28 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SBGVNAJE3EZEM7CE4S6ORUSVPM}

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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	2026-05-18T00:21:06.989240Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

904d568124d932467c44e4bce8d2557b30f4985ee20614c0c4a66921b8ca2d1c

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.10075 · arxiv_version: 1712.10075v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.10075 · pith_short_12: SBGVNAJE3EZE · pith_short_16: SBGVNAJE3EZEM7CE · pith_short_8: SBGVNAJE

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/SBGVNAJE3EZEM7CE4S6ORUSVPM \
  | 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: 904d568124d932467c44e4bce8d2557b30f4985ee20614c0c4a66921b8ca2d1c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b8b2ecf7b60421fddb8c4a819241cffd4bc55af31d7a04726b6b0b1f06544445",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-28T22:37:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d13cc2f25895e6f186612b1eba5ef62cdc13798bc951bd7f521bab08520e5a98"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.10075",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}