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pith:UBOX45PA

pith:2017:UBOX45PAQZDBT7RV33ZLSAPUYI

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Relative merits of Phononics vs. Plasmonics: the energy balance approach

Jacob B Khurgin

arxiv:1706.06641 v1 · 2017-06-20 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UBOX45PAQZDBT7RV33ZLSAPUYI}

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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	2026-05-18T00:35:51.163786Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a05d7e75e0864619fe35def2b901f4c235e0423817a5987d8e1084ad0a1dcfd7

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.06641 · arxiv_version: 1706.06641v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.06641 · pith_short_12: UBOX45PAQZDB · pith_short_16: UBOX45PAQZDBT7RV · pith_short_8: UBOX45PA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UBOX45PAQZDBT7RV33ZLSAPUYI \
  | 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: a05d7e75e0864619fe35def2b901f4c235e0423817a5987d8e1084ad0a1dcfd7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "984865934b45f19d6a5a41111af38996f79a3741901e6130fe64b576baaecf24",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-20T19:37:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "05369678aa626b902a637a6a3d0b69cbd0b4dceddafa25a96c604f563fd2dbde"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.06641",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}