Pith Number

pith:U5QBN5U5

pith:2017:U5QBN5U56CSR2DNMLOTQC3AKMT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A silicon Brillouin laser

Eric A. Kittlaus, Nils T. Otterstrom, Peter T. Rakich, Ryan O. Behunin, Zheng Wang

arxiv:1705.05813 v5 · 2017-05-16 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U5QBN5U56CSR2DNMLOTQC3AKMT}

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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	2026-05-18T00:05:24.141697Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a76016f69df0a51d0dac5ba7016c0a64f1b5246cbed7d6410d4370a97eaaed35

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.05813 · arxiv_version: 1705.05813v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.05813 · pith_short_12: U5QBN5U56CSR · pith_short_16: U5QBN5U56CSR2DNM · pith_short_8: U5QBN5U5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/U5QBN5U56CSR2DNMLOTQC3AKMT \
  | 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: a76016f69df0a51d0dac5ba7016c0a64f1b5246cbed7d6410d4370a97eaaed35

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8a93b116ef2c467925ab782af312601ff026b45d2a6234abdae2acc2a857f305",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-16T17:33:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "389c7c02b8e037b69aed0ffc60f5629fffe8db8a61789ad3e1cf5bac0b583346"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.05813",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}