Pith Number

pith:VDPE2F36

pith:2013:VDPE2F3666ZZJBHPSSTSINIGGR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Self-Configuring Universal Linear Optical Component

David A. B. Miller

arxiv:1303.4602 v2 · 2013-03-19 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VDPE2F3666ZZJBHPSSTSINIGGR}

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T03:21:11.728501Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8de4d177ef7b39484ef94a72435063454acf88daad8a3dc74248025112c7861

Aliases

arxiv: 1303.4602 · arxiv_version: 1303.4602v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1303.4602 · pith_short_12: VDPE2F3666ZZ · pith_short_16: VDPE2F3666ZZJBHP · pith_short_8: VDPE2F36

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/VDPE2F3666ZZJBHPSSTSINIGGR \
  | 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: a8de4d177ef7b39484ef94a72435063454acf88daad8a3dc74248025112c7861

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "67a209a53d2af38cee9f97de4ad0912f3a4d3250fc8e9d0a293ecf84b66dd631",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2013-03-19T14:06:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "66ff75e8f94259a1a4736738e8670955856e1c01dac6ab31c946d6264e47d320"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1303.4602",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}