Pith Number

pith:Y2LKMZZG

pith:2017:Y2LKMZZGWTNDELKFBLTJB65V5A

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Polarization state of radiation from a photonic crystal slab

A. Douglas Stone, Bo Zhen, Chia Wei Hsu, Marin Solja\v{c}i\'c

arxiv:1708.02197 v1 · 2017-08-07 · physics.optics

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y2LKMZZGWTNDELKFBLTJB65V5A}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:38:31.801820Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c696a66726b4da322d450ae690fbb5e815fd9b35c80ff27a61da399a799a2b83

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.02197 · arxiv_version: 1708.02197v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.02197 · pith_short_12: Y2LKMZZGWTND · pith_short_16: Y2LKMZZGWTNDELKF · pith_short_8: Y2LKMZZG

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/Y2LKMZZGWTNDELKFBLTJB65V5A \
  | 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: c696a66726b4da322d450ae690fbb5e815fd9b35c80ff27a61da399a799a2b83

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dcf1c26532948a2b1f36b75365029d9b47d2b744bd8f8d87e62b37a1e03919cf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-07T16:46:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1437434c29870274fd495226874fbe85670e5ced333905eff420bb93c38577d3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.02197",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}