Pith Number

pith:YOPQVWER

pith:2018:YOPQVWERUEQ45YJTWA6DQOXZWM

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Probing vectorial near field of light: imaging theory and design principles of nanoprobes

Benfeng Bai, Jia Wang, Lin Sun

arxiv:1801.07849 v3 · 2018-01-24 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YOPQVWERUEQ45YJTWA6DQOXZWM}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:09:27.395585Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c39f0ad891a121cee133b03c383af9b317c5722bbf9b7b3850ebefe8c5076c3b

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.07849 · arxiv_version: 1801.07849v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.07849 · pith_short_12: YOPQVWERUEQ4 · pith_short_16: YOPQVWERUEQ45YJT · pith_short_8: YOPQVWER

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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/YOPQVWERUEQ45YJTWA6DQOXZWM \
  | 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: c39f0ad891a121cee133b03c383af9b317c5722bbf9b7b3850ebefe8c5076c3b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8bcd45b68739cf2e0860cd9c8f98d8d33e4a71894b520c59f588d1f8d886c02f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-24T03:31:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5170b1aeeda348a7c90b37d5f30f2f68298fcdf12de99b61b19f2ecf9f2a98f0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.07849",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}