Pith Number

pith:VE7IKWLT

pith:2011:VE7IKWLTVTGNZTB63F2OROS4NY

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Higher-order optical-polarization

Hari Prakash, Ravi S.Singh

arxiv:1103.4243 v1 · 2011-03-22 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VE7IKWLTVTGNZTB63F2OROS4NY}

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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	2026-05-18T04:26:21.300560Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a93e855973acccdccc3ed974e8ba5c6e025fcac21e3b8e8deb93aa06ef8de69b

Aliases

arxiv: 1103.4243 · arxiv_version: 1103.4243v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1103.4243 · pith_short_12: VE7IKWLTVTGN · pith_short_16: VE7IKWLTVTGNZTB6 · pith_short_8: VE7IKWLT

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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/VE7IKWLTVTGNZTB63F2OROS4NY \
  | 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: a93e855973acccdccc3ed974e8ba5c6e025fcac21e3b8e8deb93aa06ef8de69b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6aaca6a4dd60b7d6c924a0f34141b95765c750f9baa875e7b7af22d1d510e9b4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2011-03-22T10:48:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c448f98248bd96d3adc4f84a0380386025dbe784aa1d0b30ad108f8e0aa4e20d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1103.4243",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}