Pith Number

pith:VHLAF7UU

pith:2015:VHLAF7UUJXFYTQOTJY5Y3MBIMT

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Energy flow structuring in the focused field

Guoqiang Li, Hao Chen

arxiv:1511.02414 v1 · 2015-11-08 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VHLAF7UUJXFYTQOTJY5Y3MBIMT}

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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	2026-05-18T01:27:30.375441Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9d602fe944dcb89c1d34e3b8db02864e55c1d074ee65c5359c0efd5b04ca978

Aliases

arxiv: 1511.02414 · arxiv_version: 1511.02414v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.02414 · pith_short_12: VHLAF7UUJXFY · pith_short_16: VHLAF7UUJXFYTQOT · pith_short_8: VHLAF7UU

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VHLAF7UUJXFYTQOTJY5Y3MBIMT \
  | 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: a9d602fe944dcb89c1d34e3b8db02864e55c1d074ee65c5359c0efd5b04ca978

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "33e28948cfa210de1f5f53d16e793593d327ed7b23c7464e087ce957b89a222e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2015-11-08T00:24:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bafc16df6faae6463e8ef20edbf1e33c70be46ea90da64ec0e004d4f9ca17766"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1511.02414",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}