Pith Number

pith:3C55RDPZ

pith:2014:3C55RDPZEC57AWKTLPGOKJKXY6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Visible optical beats at the hertz level

Bart H. McGuyer, Jiyoun Ha, Mickey McDonald, Tanya Zelevinsky

arxiv:1409.2384 v1 · 2014-09-08 · physics.optics · physics.ed-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3C55RDPZEC57AWKTLPGOKJKXY6}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:42:07.444601Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d8bbd88df920bbf059535bcce52557c7b16b19321c2a98e6e119be71a2464c1b

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.2384 · arxiv_version: 1409.2384v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.2384 · pith_short_12: 3C55RDPZEC57 · pith_short_16: 3C55RDPZEC57AWKT · pith_short_8: 3C55RDPZ

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/3C55RDPZEC57AWKTLPGOKJKXY6 \
  | 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: d8bbd88df920bbf059535bcce52557c7b16b19321c2a98e6e119be71a2464c1b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a3c787d4dc8711164d2bb5f88259d4e0279b1eaf993f618d4b5b17d23fa73eed",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.ed-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-08T14:57:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "eaf79b5f91519867995a8fad83a9ec7fbb925fbd7851e63ff059edcd1ef629ae"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.2384",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}