Pith Number

pith:UPKBRQC3

pith:2012:UPKBRQC3YCK2XFLJ5QYMK7LDYX

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Multiple-beam Propagation in an Anderson Localized Optical Fiber

Arash Mafi, Karl W. Koch, Salman Karbasi

arxiv:1211.4502 v2 · 2012-11-19 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UPKBRQC3YCK2XFLJ5QYMK7LDYX}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:57:23.778919Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a3d418c05bc095ab9569ec30c57d63c5dae20432aed420cc72c0110e146b9754

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.4502 · arxiv_version: 1211.4502v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.4502 · pith_short_12: UPKBRQC3YCK2 · pith_short_16: UPKBRQC3YCK2XFLJ · pith_short_8: UPKBRQC3

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UPKBRQC3YCK2XFLJ5QYMK7LDYX \
  | 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: a3d418c05bc095ab9569ec30c57d63c5dae20432aed420cc72c0110e146b9754

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "af197516aa24ec2208dc1d0dbed8235a660ea112afe349697e958294806699a9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-19T17:12:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c4396be3725f8b0ad42d4153f589e46e2309f4db731951d5b5a78ffd8381acc7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.4502",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}