Pith Number

pith:3G3NUQ5W

pith:2019:3G3NUQ5WKY7AAVQIK5N7JVRGUT

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Teleporting Grin of a Quantum Chesire Cat without cat

Arun Kumar Pati, Debmalya Das

arxiv:1903.04152 v1 · 2019-03-11 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3G3NUQ5WKY7AAVQIK5N7JVRGUT}

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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	2026-05-17T23:51:36.349683Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d9b6da43b6563e005608575bf4d626a4c9c958f7efa05ac7cbfa2405ade671dd

Aliases

arxiv: 1903.04152 · arxiv_version: 1903.04152v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1903.04152 · pith_short_12: 3G3NUQ5WKY7A · pith_short_16: 3G3NUQ5WKY7AAVQI · pith_short_8: 3G3NUQ5W

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/3G3NUQ5WKY7AAVQIK5N7JVRGUT \
  | 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: d9b6da43b6563e005608575bf4d626a4c9c958f7efa05ac7cbfa2405ade671dd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6d1047176e287bf50b85d0025259a08f19f06817ad0ef4cd85cd46171f9675d6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2019-03-11T07:36:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0887da8dd324149d59dc779b989c10e2932aa482b57b8c5ca372f65b3d81fe91"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1903.04152",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}