Pith Number

pith:LDKAY4D4

pith:2016:LDKAY4D4A5TCFYD57UTJ55MJHU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Two-vector representation of a nondepolarizing Mueller matrix

Ignacio San Jos\'e, Jos\'e J. Gil

arxiv:1602.01794 v3 · 2016-02-04 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LDKAY4D4A5TCFYD57UTJ55MJHU}

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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	2026-05-18T01:12:04.835000Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

58d40c707c076622e07dfd269ef5893d3f6eca3652234fe167499a5ae54edfc6

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.01794 · arxiv_version: 1602.01794v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.01794 · pith_short_12: LDKAY4D4A5TC · pith_short_16: LDKAY4D4A5TCFYD5 · pith_short_8: LDKAY4D4

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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/LDKAY4D4A5TCFYD57UTJ55MJHU \
  | 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: 58d40c707c076622e07dfd269ef5893d3f6eca3652234fe167499a5ae54edfc6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3c93355dd96d90aced129529f02729fb58eec7a520ba29114d35a272d7c61cd8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-04T19:08:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "027e558722fed6721fd8be455b9087a7191bc14b06807bd46532fdfdc40d7d18"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.01794",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}