Pith Number

pith:Y3DQP6CB

pith:2012:Y3DQP6CBXOPKFCY2VOHS7SGQ3F

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Isotropic Chiral Objects With Zero Backscattering

Antti O. Karilainen, Sergei A. Tretyakov

arxiv:1202.3286 v1 · 2012-02-15 · physics.class-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y3DQP6CBXOPKFCY2VOHS7SGQ3F}

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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	2026-05-18T01:58:28.110755Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c6c707f841bb9ea28b1aab8f2fc8d0d9585ac412ec351c45f6778dad76fa7196

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.3286 · arxiv_version: 1202.3286v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.3286 · pith_short_12: Y3DQP6CBXOPK · pith_short_16: Y3DQP6CBXOPKFCY2 · pith_short_8: Y3DQP6CB

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/Y3DQP6CBXOPKFCY2VOHS7SGQ3F \
  | 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: c6c707f841bb9ea28b1aab8f2fc8d0d9585ac412ec351c45f6778dad76fa7196

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "76237ad0f3f1f1cd364c0faa7cd354158bc1e19a537059045b7a6b111f620974",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.class-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-15T11:55:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "34f759aa1acf189054b9b02b61779fb9ed7189856ce86d20e9bc97866e7cfa49"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.3286",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}