Pith Number

pith:3MLTMDU2

pith:2009:3MLTMDU2W36NLFTZI7HESKPIK6

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A short impossibility proof of Quantum Bit Commitment

D. M. Schlingemann, G. Chiribella, G. M. D'Ariano, P. Perinotti, R. F. Werner

arxiv:0905.3801 v1 · 2009-05-23 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3MLTMDU2W36NLFTZI7HESKPIK6}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:05:55.498207Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

db17360e9ab6fcd5967947ce4929e857a11bf6ddb83b0ad0543c28656005353d

Aliases

arxiv: 0905.3801 · arxiv_version: 0905.3801v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0905.3801 · pith_short_12: 3MLTMDU2W36N · pith_short_16: 3MLTMDU2W36NLFTZ · pith_short_8: 3MLTMDU2

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/3MLTMDU2W36NLFTZI7HESKPIK6 \
  | 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: db17360e9ab6fcd5967947ce4929e857a11bf6ddb83b0ad0543c28656005353d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6a465c21386ce2ae2b02db73e9786b1aaf69ef53c063d9c25d04b74532a1c797",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2009-05-23T12:06:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "40e90fe1ec6151ee0143ee1b30f5c759b8e42623cbbc021b508149fc213e160a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0905.3801",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}