Pith Number

pith:4RYLE6VC

pith:2016:4RYLE6VCZFMRZDCJZE3F4L5UZC

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Optical Neutrality: Invisibility without Cloaking

Cleon Dean, Maxim Durach, Reed Hodges

arxiv:1612.00268 v2 · 2016-12-01 · physics.optics · cond-mat.mes-hall · cond-mat.mtrl-sci · physics.comp-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4RYLE6VCZFMRZDCJZE3F4L5UZC}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:47:07.667440Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e470b27aa2c9591c8c49c9365e2fb4c8a4c967c3dc2f42a0885cc5fea734380a

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.00268 · arxiv_version: 1612.00268v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.00268 · pith_short_12: 4RYLE6VCZFMR · pith_short_16: 4RYLE6VCZFMRZDCJ · pith_short_8: 4RYLE6VC

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/4RYLE6VCZFMRZDCJZE3F4L5UZC \
  | 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: e470b27aa2c9591c8c49c9365e2fb4c8a4c967c3dc2f42a0885cc5fea734380a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fdf92c1108e2434b3253c213b3c759988fd2445ce7f3484b1a791e98fff86f21",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.mes-hall",
      "cond-mat.mtrl-sci",
      "physics.comp-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-01T14:35:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "44c8175dd0c590016b77ca6b9567daf821d34b917cd942ef2c03be95694d06af"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.00268",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}