Pith Number

pith:YKVEEE52

pith:2017:YKVEEE52SXAHEMMXJU46OP367E

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Setup for measuring the optical propagation time in matter

Jianda Shao, Shenghao Wang, Shijie Liu, You Zhou

arxiv:1709.05208 v1 · 2017-09-13 · physics.ins-det

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YKVEEE52SXAHEMMXJU46OP367E}

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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	2026-05-18T00:35:06.409892Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c2aa4213ba95c07231974d39e73f7ef936e9342cadf41b85ff4de0d7d587fc56

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.05208 · arxiv_version: 1709.05208v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.05208 · pith_short_12: YKVEEE52SXAH · pith_short_16: YKVEEE52SXAHEMMX · pith_short_8: YKVEEE52

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YKVEEE52SXAHEMMXJU46OP367E \
  | 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: c2aa4213ba95c07231974d39e73f7ef936e9342cadf41b85ff4de0d7d587fc56

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ac71b445c388dee06a21bd39d16bc366fd0aabccbaa28f7d7e50f30626f4172b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ins-det",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-13T07:47:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6fe033669c58dcc9ae4f54131fcf7704b15135516a6ea2c956cfa78c878959ed"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.05208",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}