Pith Number

pith:WPH5E2HJ

pith:2017:WPH5E2HJTSUQK65TQUP2OPV62B

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Scattering characteristics of relativistically moving concentrically layered spheres

Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Craig F. Bohren, James K. Breakall, Timothy J. Garner

arxiv:1711.02501 v1 · 2017-11-07 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WPH5E2HJTSUQK65TQUP2OPV62B}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:28:34.750306Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b3cfd268e99ca9057bb3851fa73ebed042d05bcaaf7db47e741bc9e55d715d0e

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.02501 · arxiv_version: 1711.02501v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.02501 · pith_short_12: WPH5E2HJTSUQ · pith_short_16: WPH5E2HJTSUQK65T · pith_short_8: WPH5E2HJ

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/WPH5E2HJTSUQK65TQUP2OPV62B \
  | 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: b3cfd268e99ca9057bb3851fa73ebed042d05bcaaf7db47e741bc9e55d715d0e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4e30eaecc2afe60101f611d547788b877d941902ff03f2b96d6dcca14f17d3f5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-07T14:43:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cfd80c43c76f375fb396920a2fe60a9fcc6d7c7dc269194f05c0d97d1c28e4d5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.02501",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}