Pith Number

pith:BZWX46LU

pith:2011:BZWX46LUKJFXEM3VCRQOJAHRLH

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Comment on "Optical orbital angular momentum from the curl of polarization"

Aleksandr Y. Bekshaev, Konstantin Y. Bliokh, Marat S. Soskin

arxiv:1102.1603 v1 · 2011-02-08 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BZWX46LUKJFXEM3VCRQOJAHRLH}

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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	2026-05-18T04:29:52.905571Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0e6d7e7974524b7233751460e480f159cdd72d987f8129bc2e099860194343c4

Aliases

arxiv: 1102.1603 · arxiv_version: 1102.1603v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1102.1603 · pith_short_12: BZWX46LUKJFX · pith_short_16: BZWX46LUKJFXEM3V · pith_short_8: BZWX46LU

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/BZWX46LUKJFXEM3VCRQOJAHRLH \
  | 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: 0e6d7e7974524b7233751460e480f159cdd72d987f8129bc2e099860194343c4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d47ac249c60a588e25f4398fead67d97cb6a52c7ca798fa423fc536bbc004f81",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2011-02-08T13:38:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c9939b22e41ec4b9366157a67285331b4fe99bd01fcc2d5d79a5dbd0962b0c8d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1102.1603",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}