Pith Number

pith:2BSZA4WV

pith:2026:2BSZA4WV5KCWXJSK2XMVJEFQS3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Non-Hermitian Computers Need No Complex Numbers

Qi Zhang

arxiv:2605.28152 v1 · 2026-05-27 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2BSZA4WV5KCWXJSK2XMVJEFQS3}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-28T01:05:00.494507Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d0659072d5ea856ba64ad5d95490b096e80b066f82e7e6eb59edb7c2f36d6387

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.28152 · arxiv_version: 2605.28152v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.28152 · pith_short_12: 2BSZA4WV5KCW · pith_short_16: 2BSZA4WV5KCWXJSK · pith_short_8: 2BSZA4WV

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/2BSZA4WV5KCWXJSK2XMVJEFQS3 \
  | 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: d0659072d5ea856ba64ad5d95490b096e80b066f82e7e6eb59edb7c2f36d6387

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "989e96c307c17305ab533616bf8c0876936bb5db225df33b7033b0609f1846b1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-27T08:34:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e291787410db2f5037faaf74ed2a152b5559417d62d98aa0d24f2a67bf80a9a1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.28152",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}