Pith Number

pith:DJ5LX7K4

pith:2016:DJ5LX7K4N3RNYYGQVTVLA4FR3H

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Shaping a single photon without interacting with it

Denis Sych, Gerd Leuchs, Valentin Averchenko

arxiv:1605.00023 v2 · 2016-04-29 · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DJ5LX7K4N3RNYYGQVTVLA4FR3H}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:29:33.668978Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1a7abbfd5c6ee2dc60d0aceab070b1d9ea6d29f737fe14d32e625c7ca35e3d22

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.00023 · arxiv_version: 1605.00023v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.00023 · pith_short_12: DJ5LX7K4N3RN · pith_short_16: DJ5LX7K4N3RNYYGQ · pith_short_8: DJ5LX7K4

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/DJ5LX7K4N3RNYYGQVTVLA4FR3H \
  | 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: 1a7abbfd5c6ee2dc60d0aceab070b1d9ea6d29f737fe14d32e625c7ca35e3d22

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b019813aa994fc48a44c7c92e960a5c4460a0c150d3836932ee8c4061c5d253c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-29T21:00:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2bd74c8799656ceb7f7ff66b24c3a6e51102e2c0d2463f96f724eaca1dbcfcee"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1605.00023",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}