Pith Number

pith:TVU3MCDF

pith:2018:TVU3MCDF5Q34ERFVSKSQLREOMQ

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Superpositions of up to six plane waves without electric-field interference

J. B. G\"otte, K. C. van Kruining, R. P. Cameron

arxiv:1806.00383 v2 · 2018-06-01 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TVU3MCDF5Q34ERFVSKSQLREOMQ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:06:11.345832Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9d69b60865ec37c244b592a505c48e6413ae1731baf62d4c165493cd9b00c8f4

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.00383 · arxiv_version: 1806.00383v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.00383 · pith_short_12: TVU3MCDF5Q34 · pith_short_16: TVU3MCDF5Q34ERFV · pith_short_8: TVU3MCDF

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TVU3MCDF5Q34ERFVSKSQLREOMQ \
  | 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: 9d69b60865ec37c244b592a505c48e6413ae1731baf62d4c165493cd9b00c8f4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "93f7208cd69158ad63697d45812084966b6e872ddf4b5b77c6cc2da938f6f3fd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-01T15:00:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c804e0084d9a81798a29ec3afb7868c284c8567e975e033a35c3e8755a938c02"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.00383",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}