Pith Number

pith:WZL4HQOV

pith:2017:WZL4HQOVHXCZ4HOVOXJCGLNAFK

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Self-focusing and the Talbot effect in conformal transformation optics

Chong Sheng, Huanyang Chen, Hui Liu, Lin Xu, Shining Zhu, Xiangyang Wang

arxiv:1707.06146 v1 · 2017-07-19 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WZL4HQOVHXCZ4HOVOXJCGLNAFK}

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4 Citations 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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:39:57.470289Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b657c3c1d53dc59e1dd575d2232da02a9fbb168b0ac6e5c19b845dd1139e9918

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.06146 · arxiv_version: 1707.06146v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.06146 · pith_short_12: WZL4HQOVHXCZ · pith_short_16: WZL4HQOVHXCZ4HOV · pith_short_8: WZL4HQOV

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/WZL4HQOVHXCZ4HOVOXJCGLNAFK \
  | 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: b657c3c1d53dc59e1dd575d2232da02a9fbb168b0ac6e5c19b845dd1139e9918

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d00b104c82c564f4e64f6811614f758c64fba73b8deae39ac78d01c154bee55e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-19T15:16:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c205223d1c50702de730b0791b85f0da28e48dfd8759cf15003df0c492527e1e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.06146",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}