Pith Number

pith:SX2ZCGLP

pith:2016:SX2ZCGLPNNETJKHVLIXLGZNCRP

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High-contrast self-imaging with ordered optical elements

Ali Naqavi, Hans Peter Herzig, Markus Rossi

arxiv:1609.09150 v1 · 2016-09-28 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SX2ZCGLPNNETJKHVLIXLGZNCRP}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:57:07.155944Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

95f591196f6b4934a8f55a2eb365a28bfbbd354d32c473554f8c04d8f261d824

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.09150 · arxiv_version: 1609.09150v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.09150 · pith_short_12: SX2ZCGLPNNET · pith_short_16: SX2ZCGLPNNETJKHV · pith_short_8: SX2ZCGLP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SX2ZCGLPNNETJKHVLIXLGZNCRP \
  | 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: 95f591196f6b4934a8f55a2eb365a28bfbbd354d32c473554f8c04d8f261d824

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b310267f83559e43f848ffbe58f4d07891a60b01ad37b347ae1273aab1b936b4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-28T23:06:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3b914a1c934b902973a157046a8982eeab191cb00984e62ca7fb58dac3bdd9c3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.09150",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}