Pith Number

pith:HVNR224O

pith:2016:HVNR224OJMY3RENFY7W5MIYRFA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Parallel Polarization State Generation

Alan She, Federico Capasso

arxiv:1602.04463 v1 · 2016-02-14 · physics.optics

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HVNR224OJMY3RENFY7W5MIYRFA}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:20:49.883354Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3d5b1d6b8e4b31b891a5c7edd623112811415c862724e333ad8fed954775e8d3

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.04463 · arxiv_version: 1602.04463v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.04463 · pith_short_12: HVNR224OJMY3 · pith_short_16: HVNR224OJMY3RENF · pith_short_8: HVNR224O

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/HVNR224OJMY3RENFY7W5MIYRFA \
  | 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: 3d5b1d6b8e4b31b891a5c7edd623112811415c862724e333ad8fed954775e8d3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6071b099f655b3a404052dc47621a9138dbf29712683d19ea87acf9180b39a8c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-14T15:04:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8d27e94609c48bd4b73ceefa4c2f15034f7e54452237b23af1c2ee3dadb7752f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.04463",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}