Pith Number

pith:Y2NGYSLZ

pith:2023:Y2NGYSLZ6RNDAS7IA7GXQXZ3DN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An intriguing interpretation of Cosine beams

Srinivasa Rao Allam

arxiv:2307.14201 v1 · 2023-07-26 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y2NGYSLZ6RNDAS7IA7GXQXZ3DN}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T06:34:58.961579Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c69a6c4979f45a304be807cd785f3b1b6d63f209fa71b1fbc2ceb5247725a782

Aliases

arxiv: 2307.14201 · arxiv_version: 2307.14201v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2307.14201 · pith_short_12: Y2NGYSLZ6RND · pith_short_16: Y2NGYSLZ6RNDAS7I · pith_short_8: Y2NGYSLZ

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/Y2NGYSLZ6RNDAS7IA7GXQXZ3DN \
  | 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: c69a6c4979f45a304be807cd785f3b1b6d63f209fa71b1fbc2ceb5247725a782

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e94f06ed48b5485b0cf6aa5fc1ce647cabbd14ea88ee434ee0903e6ec244ed66",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2023-07-26T13:54:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3e81c34878dce417108d496d1b670625d6da94c82e2987aaa4b67b959ed4db53"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2307.14201",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}