Pith Number

pith:Q45LWB5G

pith:2010:Q45LWB5GCS3NWCRRQMWSA55IRW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Propagation of surface plasmons through planar interface

Peter Markos, Tomas Vary

arxiv:1004.0104 v1 · 2010-04-01 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q45LWB5GCS3NWCRRQMWSA55IRW}

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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	2026-05-18T02:24:18.297334Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

873abb07a614b6db0a31832d2077a88d84d1d5bc127427d2afb213d4bd2ed8e6

Aliases

arxiv: 1004.0104 · arxiv_version: 1004.0104v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1004.0104 · pith_short_12: Q45LWB5GCS3N · pith_short_16: Q45LWB5GCS3NWCRR · pith_short_8: Q45LWB5G

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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/Q45LWB5GCS3NWCRRQMWSA55IRW \
  | 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: 873abb07a614b6db0a31832d2077a88d84d1d5bc127427d2afb213d4bd2ed8e6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d853e7031706fc94aa54def701379dd98eb3c4e029b288d223175732ec2b673d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2010-04-01T10:42:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2b7f98c7e9355f507044f8d2df1c81a403a0b546e1f3034d6bce43798975e933"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1004.0104",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}