Pith Number

pith:VHBEY7Q2

pith:2014:VHBEY7Q2FYDEVGI7J2W7C5JWU6

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Grating-coupled excitation of the Uller-Zenneck surface wave in the optical regime

Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Muhammad Faryad

arxiv:1406.7506 v1 · 2014-06-29 · physics.optics

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\pithnumber{VHBEY7Q2FYDEVGI7J2W7C5JWU6}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:46:32.453987Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9c24c7e1a2e064a991f4eadf17536a7bfdf11bd648a549626de3aff73977e22

Aliases

arxiv: 1406.7506 · arxiv_version: 1406.7506v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.7506 · pith_short_12: VHBEY7Q2FYDE · pith_short_16: VHBEY7Q2FYDEVGI7 · pith_short_8: VHBEY7Q2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VHBEY7Q2FYDEVGI7J2W7C5JWU6 \
  | 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: a9c24c7e1a2e064a991f4eadf17536a7bfdf11bd648a549626de3aff73977e22

Canonical record JSON

{
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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8ca6356bd87f3c329386535bde71a9ca858748ae43d52d0df497c5c4cebdbf7a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2014-06-29T13:42:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6d386cdc75c3e8f554851bb0c1515b246d8721ebeccd7228c5caa4e426d8cb02"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1406.7506",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}