Pith Number

pith:GO3FIXG7

pith:2026:GO3FIXG762ZA2FCK766QDCQ2QL

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What should a linear optical frontend compute? Assessing the role of meta-optics, nonlocality, and coherence in hybrid inference systems

Francesco Monticone, Nicholas Behrens, Yandong Li

arxiv:2608.10304 v1 · 2026-08-10 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GO3FIXG762ZA2FCK766QDCQ2QL}

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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	2026-08-12T00:23:50.381578Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

33b6545cdff6b20d144affbd018a1a82f40b1d78e1adc615b0717870a1214fa5

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.10304 · arxiv_version: 2608.10304v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.10304 · pith_short_12: GO3FIXG762ZA · pith_short_16: GO3FIXG762ZA2FCK · pith_short_8: GO3FIXG7

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GO3FIXG762ZA2FCK766QDCQ2QL \
  | 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: 33b6545cdff6b20d144affbd018a1a82f40b1d78e1adc615b0717870a1214fa5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3a9c10e4e9eed3c791d9ad5d8b8f6853e88f06ceb071bb4d6528cd98ff5d639b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-10T23:21:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f2183d300db0dae12f5b4e5dcfba82c93999d8b3fd510d05dc1762c58c09ac80"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.10304",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}