Pith Number

pith:MAHY24J6

pith:2014:MAHY24J6BWOK374TQVX7OEZSHL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Filamentary, my dear Watson

Akhlesh Lakhtakia

arxiv:1406.1690 v1 · 2014-06-06 · physics.optics

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MAHY24J6BWOK374TQVX7OEZSHL}

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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	2026-05-18T02:50:14.214674Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

600f8d713e0d9cadff93856ff713323accfb4815de47bc4193815c3a5516d475

Aliases

arxiv: 1406.1690 · arxiv_version: 1406.1690v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.1690 · pith_short_12: MAHY24J6BWOK · pith_short_16: MAHY24J6BWOK374T · pith_short_8: MAHY24J6

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/MAHY24J6BWOK374TQVX7OEZSHL \
  | 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: 600f8d713e0d9cadff93856ff713323accfb4815de47bc4193815c3a5516d475

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "541075d69429ce643288a29d09bdec84b13d8f3eb58a1cd1e4def0dd84ca01d6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2014-06-06T13:48:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b80e27b0830e071a182653bb6cfc44c0256e3f93e0b11ee4cea48d2262c1198e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1406.1690",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}