Pith Number

pith:FTB2DNWU

pith:2018:FTB2DNWUBJWI2ZL2TOPUTQQMTB

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An intuitive approach to structuring the three polarization components of light

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

arxiv:1810.01306 v1 · 2018-10-02 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FTB2DNWUBJWI2ZL2TOPUTQQMTB}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-17T23:54:58.914545Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2cc3a1b6d40a6c8d657a9b9f49c20c9851885b57130dc954896242600ea4921f

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.01306 · arxiv_version: 1810.01306v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.01306 · pith_short_12: FTB2DNWUBJWI · pith_short_16: FTB2DNWUBJWI2ZL2 · pith_short_8: FTB2DNWU

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/FTB2DNWUBJWI2ZL2TOPUTQQMTB \
  | 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: 2cc3a1b6d40a6c8d657a9b9f49c20c9851885b57130dc954896242600ea4921f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aedcb28178b7c3feb2cb32be65f646046b7631f9c7935920bec7686aabe56623",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-02T14:49:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "29b3be9f8747e78f9d72bfef4cce1583dd9a888a47ef8552001536bf2c96dbf1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.01306",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}