Pith Number

pith:446LO7NB

pith:2017:446LO7NBHMA6CXY7ZMFUL2Z4VM

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Field patterns: a new type of wave with infinitely degenerate band structure

Graeme W. Milton, Ornella Mattei

arxiv:1707.05756 v2 · 2017-07-06 · physics.class-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{446LO7NBHMA6CXY7ZMFUL2Z4VM}

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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	2026-05-18T00:21:13.350238Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e73cb77da13b01e15f1fcb0b45eb3cab1801f9bbe6a1780510f472551d6c9573

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.05756 · arxiv_version: 1707.05756v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.05756 · pith_short_12: 446LO7NBHMA6 · pith_short_16: 446LO7NBHMA6CXY7 · pith_short_8: 446LO7NB

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/446LO7NBHMA6CXY7ZMFUL2Z4VM \
  | 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: e73cb77da13b01e15f1fcb0b45eb3cab1801f9bbe6a1780510f472551d6c9573

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b338255181290d464452cace98f1286a74e6cc6f5dc257ddaf2ff6dc939f3fc4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.class-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-06T19:17:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b7c9e7b049ecabead9b3f2bb868b05b6cdf49de6b61dda5f65e0d05262939ffe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.05756",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}