Pith Number

pith:ZT536UVE

pith:2017:ZT536UVEGVMUVUZLBIYPPD6Z4F

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Edge states in self-complementary checkerboard photonic crystals: Zak phase, surface impedance and experimental verification

Ding Zhao, Fu-Long Shi, Huan Liu, Jian-Wen Dong, Jin-Cheng Lu, Min Chen, Xiao-Dong Chen, Xiao-Sheng Zhu

arxiv:1709.05177 v1 · 2017-09-15 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZT536UVEGVMUVUZLBIYPPD6Z4F}

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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	2026-05-18T00:25:17.250859Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ccfbbf52a435594ad32b0a30f78fd9e152dafe7f729159a3e87f237d0f72889a

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.05177 · arxiv_version: 1709.05177v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.05177 · pith_short_12: ZT536UVEGVMU · pith_short_16: ZT536UVEGVMUVUZL · pith_short_8: ZT536UVE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZT536UVEGVMUVUZLBIYPPD6Z4F \
  | 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: ccfbbf52a435594ad32b0a30f78fd9e152dafe7f729159a3e87f237d0f72889a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d7560986c77a1da553b9bdf35ab2936789e15d14f840e5f593593479307507e8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-15T12:38:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8ea37f90da2226a94780e1e4de2f91ff2a99a94711ad55958fb501e47529f5e5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.05177",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}