Pith Number

pith:R55GRT3G

pith:2015:R55GRT3GL7DZL7PWP4DQEOAWOS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Photonic Lantern

Alexander Argyros, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Sergio Leon-Saval

arxiv:1503.03269 v1 · 2015-03-11 · physics.optics

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R55GRT3GL7DZL7PWP4DQEOAWOS}

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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	2026-05-18T02:25:03.940620Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8f7a68cf665fc795fdf67f07023816749bbc6255b3ae475fdf1396d578d6c7c0

Aliases

arxiv: 1503.03269 · arxiv_version: 1503.03269v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.03269 · pith_short_12: R55GRT3GL7DZ · pith_short_16: R55GRT3GL7DZL7PW · pith_short_8: R55GRT3G

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/R55GRT3GL7DZL7PWP4DQEOAWOS \
  | 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: 8f7a68cf665fc795fdf67f07023816749bbc6255b3ae475fdf1396d578d6c7c0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "395223a88fd9fd044fe9cd9bdc63831e0e56414d283849d148cfa217f70c6396",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2015-03-11T10:57:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6022ba69b8ae71027b05c37119e1aeb35c4dfd49d44b301174d53fb37cb44171"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1503.03269",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}