Pith Number

pith:Y3IRRU7R

pith:2012:Y3IRRU7R26NLRCIAD2Q6OMNADP

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Effects of Refraction and Reflection on Coherence Properties of Light

Emil Wolf, Mayukh Lahiri

arxiv:1210.3653 v2 · 2012-10-12 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y3IRRU7R26NLRCIAD2Q6OMNADP}

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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	2026-05-18T03:42:33.533766Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c6d118d3f1d79ab889001ea1e731a01beb85c2d0def97d15e2bd3a6ffe2ba588

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.3653 · arxiv_version: 1210.3653v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.3653 · pith_short_12: Y3IRRU7R26NL · pith_short_16: Y3IRRU7R26NLRCIA · pith_short_8: Y3IRRU7R

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Y3IRRU7R26NLRCIAD2Q6OMNADP \
  | 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: c6d118d3f1d79ab889001ea1e731a01beb85c2d0def97d15e2bd3a6ffe2ba588

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "369085866f0f580133aff42d1dcd7513362cbb7a7559d934d4852b22a34efc08",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-12T22:43:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f94a6c399a6b37883d600b7b9f67647abb9ff716fc4f1a147fcac4d46cca4b66"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.3653",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}