Pith Number

pith:Y6FBHRV5

pith:2012:Y6FBHRV5343ARMLZ7QVI45RNRY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Reconciliation of generalized refraction with diffraction theory

David R. Smith, St\'ephane Larouche

arxiv:1204.2283 v1 · 2012-04-10 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y6FBHRV5343ARMLZ7QVI45RNRY}

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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	2026-05-18T01:17:21.193520Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c78a13c6bddf3608b179fc2a8e762d8e1a43d0cc005aee56df038ab1a5b5677b

Aliases

arxiv: 1204.2283 · arxiv_version: 1204.2283v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.2283 · pith_short_12: Y6FBHRV5343A · pith_short_16: Y6FBHRV5343ARMLZ · pith_short_8: Y6FBHRV5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Y6FBHRV5343ARMLZ7QVI45RNRY \
  | 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: c78a13c6bddf3608b179fc2a8e762d8e1a43d0cc005aee56df038ab1a5b5677b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "535d97a931fc5c5a2620d771d7d9f15489b3f643a42bafb773a3d58d2c13cf66",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2012-04-10T20:56:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8211716821a629b98ce9432aefc0ccbc0bae8defc2114ee98842f1a05c3ff019"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1204.2283",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}