Pith Number

pith:VV6E6EV3

pith:2017:VV6E6EV35IU7272NVAQFTKH3B2

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Quantising the electromagnetic field near two-sided semi-transparent mirrors

Almut Beige, Lewis A. Clark, Nicholas Furtak-Wells, Robert Purdy

arxiv:1704.02898 v3 · 2017-04-10 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VV6E6EV35IU7272NVAQFTKH3B2}

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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	2026-05-18T00:18:20.454405Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad7c4f12bbea29fd7f4da82059a8fb0eb96800ac407387839716056bbb16459e

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.02898 · arxiv_version: 1704.02898v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.02898 · pith_short_12: VV6E6EV35IU7 · pith_short_16: VV6E6EV35IU7272N · pith_short_8: VV6E6EV3

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VV6E6EV35IU7272NVAQFTKH3B2 \
  | 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: ad7c4f12bbea29fd7f4da82059a8fb0eb96800ac407387839716056bbb16459e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d066f7d9245575799885ae3c6e8d4c4195ad1073b1ab4215e0a6cac628706c46",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-10T15:14:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "25108f2396aa2ee185c560483bfee14b8a8997e7559ad7849d4b3a307bb1f4ed"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.02898",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}