Pith Number

pith:VGL42G3O

pith:2026:VGL42G3OVY3R72NIDSCX5RSTHX

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Structured coherence: A modern perspective on optical coherence as a resource

Ayman F. Abouraddy, Bahaa E. A. Saleh

arxiv:2608.06356 v1 · 2026-08-06 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VGL42G3OVY3R72NIDSCX5RSTHX}

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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	2026-08-07T01:41:28.338909Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a997cd1b6eae371fe9a81c857ec6533dd58f8a5f1784e60a78499f8a1136a83b

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.06356 · arxiv_version: 2608.06356v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.06356 · pith_short_12: VGL42G3OVY3R · pith_short_16: VGL42G3OVY3R72NI · pith_short_8: VGL42G3O

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/VGL42G3OVY3R72NIDSCX5RSTHX \
  | 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: a997cd1b6eae371fe9a81c857ec6533dd58f8a5f1784e60a78499f8a1136a83b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5f460ebb4d28bb6480eae460155d13749c47074635229481d7a495272c6ba4b3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-06T17:54:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "61b8dc02b92065ff5a9319e8e6faa08ef2c16874d7a1e8ca52a754a4d7d1744d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.06356",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}