Pith Number

pith:UWW4JX7H

pith:2017:UWW4JX7HRON2ALL43YV5CVDCS5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Perfect polarization for arbitrary light beams

Aaron Z. Goldberg, Daniel F. V. James

arxiv:1710.06869 v3 · 2017-10-18 · quant-ph · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UWW4JX7HRON2ALL43YV5CVDCS5}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:04:08.164136Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a5adc4dfe78b9ba02d7cde2bd1546297720ff813573d23a011dce86a2f684eeb

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.06869 · arxiv_version: 1710.06869v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.06869 · pith_short_12: UWW4JX7HRON2 · pith_short_16: UWW4JX7HRON2ALL4 · pith_short_8: UWW4JX7H

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/UWW4JX7HRON2ALL43YV5CVDCS5 \
  | 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: a5adc4dfe78b9ba02d7cde2bd1546297720ff813573d23a011dce86a2f684eeb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "293f5ecd1cd9f2cd6d684abf4e56b9384a826d7f04fcf4a3c3ca4b1b5863387a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-18T18:01:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "45079c993af964a72b66b02f8b0403202d055db47e6195c7e7afbe5523d3d58f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.06869",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}