Pith Number

pith:VR2VCL6Y

pith:2011:VR2VCL6YNMHG2OX3BZ635QJO5F

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Avoiding metallic walls: Use of modal superposition in plasmonic waveguides to reduce propagation loss

Francisco J. Rodr\'iguez-Fortu\~no, Nader Engheta

arxiv:1110.1663 v1 · 2011-10-07 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VR2VCL6YNMHG2OX3BZ635QJO5F}

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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	2026-05-18T03:32:45.529668Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac75512fd86b0e6d3afb0e7dbec12ee9512b545ae2db8ffc3ff9d0f9d77361f4

Aliases

arxiv: 1110.1663 · arxiv_version: 1110.1663v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1110.1663 · pith_short_12: VR2VCL6YNMHG · pith_short_16: VR2VCL6YNMHG2OX3 · pith_short_8: VR2VCL6Y

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/VR2VCL6YNMHG2OX3BZ635QJO5F \
  | 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: ac75512fd86b0e6d3afb0e7dbec12ee9512b545ae2db8ffc3ff9d0f9d77361f4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "546dd5ec70defc1225af98be03cf852e74617d025d0f33cc35bc94e0a97f980e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2011-10-07T21:34:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "58952f7c08bd6eeb222ec34be466ccc5ffcae9429e5621020df9262d8796c244"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1110.1663",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}