Pith Number

pith:ULRQRZKX

pith:2025:ULRQRZKX5N3P3GVR7GYFV2XQK7

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Seeing through randomness with topological light

Andrew Forbes, Cade Peters, Kelsey Everts, Pedro Ornelas, Tatjana Kleine

arxiv:2508.12305 v1 · 2025-08-17 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ULRQRZKX5N3P3GVR7GYFV2XQK7}

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:55:03.076360Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a2e308e557eb76fd9ab1f9b05aeaf057e3be77542b73375e72fa36fb9b1ded73

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.12305 · arxiv_version: 2508.12305v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.12305 · pith_short_12: ULRQRZKX5N3P · pith_short_16: ULRQRZKX5N3P3GVR · pith_short_8: ULRQRZKX

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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/ULRQRZKX5N3P3GVR7GYFV2XQK7 \
  | 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: a2e308e557eb76fd9ab1f9b05aeaf057e3be77542b73375e72fa36fb9b1ded73

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aed584825c387a54e52029aa1cb7eb25574e41639c0f724b4453e52465e29ae0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-17T09:46:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "baa79fb50cda9a8fbc85e1e87bd2da3aac0e3fd182ac9bc51f4b49f060e3382d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.12305",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}