Pith Number

pith:NSK62UIJ

pith:1998:NSK62UIJESGE26VXDVXK7SFOYX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Concentrator of laser energy for thin vapour cloud production near a surface

B.A.Knyazev, J.B.Greenly, P.I.Melnikov

arxiv:physics/9808003 v3 · 1998-08-06 · physics.acc-ph · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NSK62UIJESGE26VXDVXK7SFOYX}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T01:38:04.320205Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6c95ed5109248c4d7ab71d6eafc8aec5c4b844ffd7bd9bac3e308f6be78e5efe

Aliases

arxiv: physics/9808003 · arxiv_version: physics/9808003v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/9808003 · pith_short_12: NSK62UIJESGE · pith_short_16: NSK62UIJESGE26VX · pith_short_8: NSK62UIJ

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/NSK62UIJESGE26VXDVXK7SFOYX \
  | 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: 6c95ed5109248c4d7ab71d6eafc8aec5c4b844ffd7bd9bac3e308f6be78e5efe

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aa85fbb240ecf5f10a3fcae2c36a2bb45257e9ca1cf11b8c601cf03ab20c4a3c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.acc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-08-06T10:24:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3dde5b99547f1683573d552d7a2acdeece58cb4e8423c9faea4b6344a1eb2778"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/9808003",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}