Pith Number

pith:IOJMNWTZ

pith:2005:IOJMNWTZDDE2MKEAJKCGLWN5OZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantitative scattering of melanin solutions

Jennifer Riesz, Joel Gilmore, Paul Meredith

arxiv:physics/0510210 v1 · 2005-10-24 · physics.bio-ph · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IOJMNWTZDDE2MKEAJKCGLWN5OZ}

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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	2026-07-04T16:57:21.446449Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4392c6da7918c9a628804a8465d9bd7674cec28343f912b66e3ae19a06c371f6

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0510210 · arxiv_version: physics/0510210v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0510210 · pith_short_12: IOJMNWTZDDE2 · pith_short_16: IOJMNWTZDDE2MKEA · pith_short_8: IOJMNWTZ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IOJMNWTZDDE2MKEAJKCGLWN5OZ \
  | 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: 4392c6da7918c9a628804a8465d9bd7674cec28343f912b66e3ae19a06c371f6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "501f501c26af384ef4abb9600f540cefafb2773f5b2f0e090fd8a0504104f38b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-10-24T04:02:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "15e41d336bf810aee8d0590e5e723e2517ba929b8c2d3eb2d07aaf7fd3918daf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0510210",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}