Pith Number

pith:YB5XOECE

pith:2011:YB5XOECE2JUD4VBJ5TK54WQUO2

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Calculation of all elements of the Mueller matrix for scattering of light from a two-dimensional randomly rough metal surface

Alexei A. Maradudin, Ingve Simonsen, Paul Anton Letnes, Tor Nordam

arxiv:1108.2599 v2 · 2011-08-12 · physics.optics

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\pithnumber{YB5XOECE2JUD4VBJ5TK54WQUO2}

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:41:12.699219Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c07b771044d2683e5429ecd5de5a1476b45981ceef7cfed37488a4b9b18e019a

Aliases

arxiv: 1108.2599 · arxiv_version: 1108.2599v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1108.2599 · pith_short_12: YB5XOECE2JUD · pith_short_16: YB5XOECE2JUD4VBJ · pith_short_8: YB5XOECE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YB5XOECE2JUD4VBJ5TK54WQUO2 \
  | 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: c07b771044d2683e5429ecd5de5a1476b45981ceef7cfed37488a4b9b18e019a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "84a5081b57cd25cb98b276078a94c0f53ff5abb1c0f70f07796686e27ce41464",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2011-08-12T10:56:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "561d43d785efadded029e094bdd7c2bf09ce87f4b9c0234e2f39bde2f1348480"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1108.2599",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}