Pith Number

pith:VRL4AZK6

pith:2016:VRL4AZK6OK6KOPPLCBZMX5L7LW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Simple Picosecond Pulse Generator Based on a Pair of Step Recovery Diodes

Christophe Caloz, Lianfeng Zou, Shulabh Gupta

arxiv:1610.07115 v1 · 2016-10-23 · physics.ins-det

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VRL4AZK6OK6KOPPLCBZMX5L7LW}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:32:51.173897Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac57c0655e72bca73deb1072cbf57f5dbe167fa7f792a1684ac7de9022427ed1

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.07115 · arxiv_version: 1610.07115v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.07115 · pith_short_12: VRL4AZK6OK6K · pith_short_16: VRL4AZK6OK6KOPPL · pith_short_8: VRL4AZK6

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/VRL4AZK6OK6KOPPLCBZMX5L7LW \
  | 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: ac57c0655e72bca73deb1072cbf57f5dbe167fa7f792a1684ac7de9022427ed1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7e1334b88679d122be0769530e6b07913aa833336cf641fe6502315d173d924a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ins-det",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-23T02:35:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "344183294e52b163c2d5a8501789e8aa158e8458a15af1b1a53d25d63882eb3b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.07115",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}