Pith Number

pith:WHYH3U5S

pith:2026:WHYH3U5SZ3K5TAK7ZQKM4XHPAJ

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Architecture-agnostic analysis of partially coherent light with programmable photonics

Jonathan Friedman, Kevin Zelaya, Matthew Markowitz, Mohammad-Ali Miri

arxiv:2607.24104 v1 · 2026-07-27 · physics.optics · math-ph · math.MP

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\pithnumber{WHYH3U5SZ3K5TAK7ZQKM4XHPAJ}

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First computed	2026-07-28T01:23:45.298492Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b1f07dd3b2ced5d9815fcc14ce5cef027f7e378cd8a9c976372ff97610c65f22

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.24104 · arxiv_version: 2607.24104v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.24104 · pith_short_12: WHYH3U5SZ3K5 · pith_short_16: WHYH3U5SZ3K5TAK7 · pith_short_8: WHYH3U5S

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WHYH3U5SZ3K5TAK7ZQKM4XHPAJ \
  | 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: b1f07dd3b2ced5d9815fcc14ce5cef027f7e378cd8a9c976372ff97610c65f22

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e82d6db3d901ab9ea94aff49626680c7a18290b8e2a3275663201b9a68014da9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math-ph",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-27T07:43:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4c42651e72db9f5e1a96bd1c4f4af4facb5e0518a45473132413930201b51152"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.24104",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}