Pith Number

pith:YNMDUKYF

pith:2014:YNMDUKYFVQT6PREEH4L7I73U6O

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Colorful Demonstration of Thermal Refraction

Mark Ciotola, Olivia Mah

arxiv:1405.5295 v1 · 2014-05-21 · physics.ed-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YNMDUKYFVQT6PREEH4L7I73U6O}

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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	2026-05-18T02:51:24.566896Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c3583a2b05ac27e7c4843f17f47f74f3acd799f0f0c01e2c2260722d168c10e6

Aliases

arxiv: 1405.5295 · arxiv_version: 1405.5295v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1405.5295 · pith_short_12: YNMDUKYFVQT6 · pith_short_16: YNMDUKYFVQT6PREE · pith_short_8: YNMDUKYF

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/YNMDUKYFVQT6PREEH4L7I73U6O \
  | 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: c3583a2b05ac27e7c4843f17f47f74f3acd799f0f0c01e2c2260722d168c10e6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "96502505d2c02fd163e89786b7dd85a339b8e68db4304d5dc04246c50abc51ab",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ed-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-05-21T04:32:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "101721ceef28433fcdba17779575a55843b8c4d5ab1106818cf08b18dfc9b6b5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1405.5295",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}