Pith Number

pith:ILMJYQSY

pith:2016:ILMJYQSY6U7GY6AYTPJRRQ3E4H

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Swings and roundabouts: Optical Poincar\'e spheres for polarization and Gaussian beams

Mark R Dennis, Miguel A Alonso

arxiv:1611.10245 v1 · 2016-11-30 · physics.optics · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ILMJYQSY6U7GY6AYTPJRRQ3E4H}

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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	2026-05-18T00:53:11.944275Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

42d89c4258f53e6c78189bd318c364e1c47e89bdc2026c432e06c768d518002f

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.10245 · arxiv_version: 1611.10245v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.10245 · pith_short_12: ILMJYQSY6U7G · pith_short_16: ILMJYQSY6U7GY6AY · pith_short_8: ILMJYQSY

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/ILMJYQSY6U7GY6AYTPJRRQ3E4H \
  | 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: 42d89c4258f53e6c78189bd318c364e1c47e89bdc2026c432e06c768d518002f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f98083463fe6cba3c0338e0a999d4fa3a1fdc30a8cba26a3305bf87d1212a979",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-30T16:05:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "113c9d7742e2d45a61d1ef6227e6552f52365f028faad73fff72e713b3e5ce56"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.10245",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}