Pith Number

pith:VO6G7MEC

pith:2017:VO6G7MEC7N7MAR4O3OPNJNTJDK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Generation of multiple vector beams from a single digital hologram

Andrew Forbes, Carmelo Rosales-Guzm\'an, Nkosiphile Bhebhe

arxiv:1708.02485 v1 · 2017-08-08 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VO6G7MEC7N7MAR4O3OPNJNTJDK}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:38:24.129596Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

abbc6fb082fb7ec0478edb9ed4b6691a8db0295ba2d3078ce906cfc1ac8880fd

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.02485 · arxiv_version: 1708.02485v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.02485 · pith_short_12: VO6G7MEC7N7M · pith_short_16: VO6G7MEC7N7MAR4O · pith_short_8: VO6G7MEC

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/VO6G7MEC7N7MAR4O3OPNJNTJDK \
  | 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: abbc6fb082fb7ec0478edb9ed4b6691a8db0295ba2d3078ce906cfc1ac8880fd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "97654a94167a61f43360b577734f2d2005f1690331cf056eb98ddb4b11e2f204",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-08T13:34:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e8bdd3bfdb90473d4780111d909b9c47a29f060395fe4f06c6bbc419cb2c3b20"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.02485",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}