Pith Number

pith:W72VSNOD

pith:2014:W72VSNODPQVA54SXK55VY7PQWP

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Nematicons in liquid crystals with negative dielectric anisotropy

Dayu Li, Jing Wang, Jinlong Liu, Junzhu Chen, Li Xuan, Qi Guo, Wei Hu, Yiheng Li, Yonggang Liu

arxiv:1403.2154 v2 · 2014-03-10 · physics.optics

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\pithnumber{W72VSNODPQVA54SXK55VY7PQWP}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:56:34.372970Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b7f55935c37c2a0ef257577b5c7df0b3f9ba1d3aa3d42ed7803f7b086d1ee6f8

Aliases

arxiv: 1403.2154 · arxiv_version: 1403.2154v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1403.2154 · pith_short_12: W72VSNODPQVA · pith_short_16: W72VSNODPQVA54SX · pith_short_8: W72VSNOD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/W72VSNODPQVA54SXK55VY7PQWP \
  | 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: b7f55935c37c2a0ef257577b5c7df0b3f9ba1d3aa3d42ed7803f7b086d1ee6f8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1502b049c358b7070ed2e7a9e3f15d9bc1a8c495f64332d9d28d678e490d96b9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2014-03-10T07:39:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "74b9edfd419897b9a8c5ce1467bf07faf08d89238088d73e37cfe2edf0995bf0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1403.2154",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}