Pith Number

pith:VM5DFKQT

pith:2012:VM5DFKQTRGRU47SFUVGLJ7EB6U

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Polarization of light scattered by large aggregates

Daniel Mackowski, Ludmilla Kolokolova

arxiv:1206.6509 v1 · 2012-06-27 · astro-ph.EP

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\pithnumber{VM5DFKQTRGRU47SFUVGLJ7EB6U}

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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	2026-05-18T03:51:25.114625Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab3a32aa1389a34e7e45a54cb4fc81f530dea5253f9ec4e620a0d8d65f452ec8

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.6509 · arxiv_version: 1206.6509v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.6509 · pith_short_12: VM5DFKQTRGRU · pith_short_16: VM5DFKQTRGRU47SF · pith_short_8: VM5DFKQT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VM5DFKQTRGRU47SFUVGLJ7EB6U \
  | 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: ab3a32aa1389a34e7e45a54cb4fc81f530dea5253f9ec4e620a0d8d65f452ec8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "04d2a26267d67437c5aa86632feec2d739036b576a6ac93c70239b82aaa46510",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-27T20:06:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0551d20c8db135016f4d6eaecf97d50b005ec5ff232d652f1c3621ed0af24791"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.6509",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}