Pith Number

pith:25PR4RY2

pith:2005:25PR4RY2O2L2QHLBVZXOSGDLXP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Negative and Positive Lateral Shift of a Light Beam Reflected from a Grounded Slab

Hong Chen, Li-Gang Wang, Nian-Hua Liu, Shi-Yao Zhu

arxiv:physics/0512083 v1 · 2005-12-09 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{25PR4RY2O2L2QHLBVZXOSGDLXP}

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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	2026-07-04T16:57:24.303179Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d75f1e471a7697a81d61ae6ee9186bbbca0929d1a268e6d1d6af3e86d18deea6

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0512083 · arxiv_version: physics/0512083v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0512083 · pith_short_12: 25PR4RY2O2L2 · pith_short_16: 25PR4RY2O2L2QHLB · pith_short_8: 25PR4RY2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/25PR4RY2O2L2QHLBVZXOSGDLXP \
  | 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: d75f1e471a7697a81d61ae6ee9186bbbca0929d1a268e6d1d6af3e86d18deea6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2b17a9daad5e8ed3efba55911c0b1aa9920634e9c96345fa3c8fad908dd0fa56",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2005-12-09T13:30:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "46225b4567aa90057bc7ac3ad69174909cf8844b02ecd2db8093e518d5c94003"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0512083",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}