Pith Number

pith:3PPP24UH

pith:2012:3PPP24UHZ3ZAWII6OMEDACD4R3

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The Minimal Work Cost of Information Processing

Fr\'ed\'eric Dupuis, Jonathan Oppenheim, Philippe Faist, Renato Renner

arxiv:1211.1037 v2 · 2012-11-05 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3PPP24UHZ3ZAWII6OMEDACD4R3}

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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	2026-05-18T01:37:16.453352Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dbdefd7287cef20b211e730830087c8efbc5cbbf59d2e8a4136332fcdc1ef8a4

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.1037 · arxiv_version: 1211.1037v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.1037 · pith_short_12: 3PPP24UHZ3ZA · pith_short_16: 3PPP24UHZ3ZAWII6 · pith_short_8: 3PPP24UH

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/3PPP24UHZ3ZAWII6OMEDACD4R3 \
  | 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: dbdefd7287cef20b211e730830087c8efbc5cbbf59d2e8a4136332fcdc1ef8a4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7dcfab1c88f5ab9e1a20f5212cb3cc4aaaeb05d4618999d46334acca7f402dc0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-05T21:15:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5a3582b2bef8a65e1cc12f2fc2ad3f2f0543e51b696ae05b89a570adcc65edd8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.1037",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}