Pith Number

pith:66EIOS4P

pith:2003:66EIOS4PZ25WVALDG6D4JZZ7IJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Compensation for Extreme Outages caused by Polarization Mode Dispersion and Amplifier noise

Igor Kolokolov (Landau Institute & LANL), Michael Chertkov (LANL), Vladimir Chernyak (Corning Inc.), Vladimir Lebedev (Landau Institute & LANL)

arxiv:physics/0303014 v2 · 2003-03-04 · physics.optics · physics.data-an

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\pithnumber{66EIOS4PZ25WVALDG6D4JZZ7IJ}

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:08.994293Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f788874b8fcebb6a81633787c4e73f427f500d5093a20d19132c6bc347ed4732

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0303014 · arxiv_version: physics/0303014v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0303014 · pith_short_12: 66EIOS4PZ25W · pith_short_16: 66EIOS4PZ25WVALD · pith_short_8: 66EIOS4P

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/66EIOS4PZ25WVALDG6D4JZZ7IJ \
  | 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: f788874b8fcebb6a81633787c4e73f427f500d5093a20d19132c6bc347ed4732

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b2b5f79694e87b4300598c684f25749216bc7a0f3638c1d839504e7b0c54e044",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.data-an"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2003-03-04T20:10:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b9ec4cbb9f6a8492030fc2f19611d16186018b6115bb9463171ea3e5a4ce669a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0303014",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}