Pith Number

pith:XJMUWAGT

pith:2011:XJMUWAGTCSAT7FTDI4L5E2ADTU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Can a single gradientless light beam drag particles?

Andrey Novitsky, Cheng-Wei Qiu

arxiv:1102.5285 v1 · 2011-02-25 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XJMUWAGTCSAT7FTDI4L5E2ADTU}

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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	2026-05-18T04:01:26.382671Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ba594b00d314813f96634717d268039d1142c4338b78b44e10d1381a17ea9a32

Aliases

arxiv: 1102.5285 · arxiv_version: 1102.5285v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1102.5285 · pith_short_12: XJMUWAGTCSAT · pith_short_16: XJMUWAGTCSAT7FTD · pith_short_8: XJMUWAGT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XJMUWAGTCSAT7FTDI4L5E2ADTU \
  | 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: ba594b00d314813f96634717d268039d1142c4338b78b44e10d1381a17ea9a32

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "329664483edc7e0136f0e0427ca5d59f1578379888b8c97f610b1d0d4998cf5a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2011-02-25T16:17:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ec85a3406ef33725209666bad5b0a24b0b358087144c9624ca31ca80b10bb031"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1102.5285",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}