Pith Number

pith:SPWZY4KW

pith:2006:SPWZY4KWX7KZHPEXLBJX36KRFE

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Polarization resolved angular patterns in nematic liquid crystal cells

Alexei D. Kiselev

arxiv:physics/0612114 v2 · 2006-12-12 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SPWZY4KWX7KZHPEXLBJX36KRFE}

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:04.821951Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

93ed9c7156bfd593bc9758537df9512925710badab9d84d916b1c6b066d27fb5

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0612114 · arxiv_version: physics/0612114v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0612114 · pith_short_12: SPWZY4KWX7KZ · pith_short_16: SPWZY4KWX7KZHPEX · pith_short_8: SPWZY4KW

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/SPWZY4KWX7KZHPEXLBJX36KRFE \
  | 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: 93ed9c7156bfd593bc9758537df9512925710badab9d84d916b1c6b066d27fb5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "65db1cf63ccc8333d707c49b9a46ea4dee219c92c707e0ec5c3579c619a7d3df",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2006-12-12T23:49:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "22358796ed3fd66981db787cc6d9da0e99fb32d832a62cb2630d0542083bb2d1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0612114",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}