Pith Number

pith:B63BFDJV

pith:2018:B63BFDJVOHASLTF6JYA7SIIG2V

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Creating Complex Optical Longitudinal Polarization Structures

F. Maucher, I. G. Hughes, S. A. Gardiner, S. Skupin

arxiv:1801.05668 v1 · 2018-01-17 · physics.optics

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\pithnumber{B63BFDJVOHASLTF6JYA7SIIG2V}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:18:09.171725Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0fb6128d3571c125ccbe4e01f92106d56c1aa09325800223a0df5b49c1c84874

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.05668 · arxiv_version: 1801.05668v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.05668 · pith_short_12: B63BFDJVOHAS · pith_short_16: B63BFDJVOHASLTF6 · pith_short_8: B63BFDJV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/B63BFDJVOHASLTF6JYA7SIIG2V \
  | 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: 0fb6128d3571c125ccbe4e01f92106d56c1aa09325800223a0df5b49c1c84874

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "51620579dfa5bdfc11f9d37ff4ef6d40c489d6efada71b61794af005d40ffad2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-17T14:10:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fe03507c8005f570dc66fed577dded50270248e29ad98812f1b5e82c11e35f67"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.05668",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}