Pith Number

pith:3RTDYCJQ

pith:2022:3RTDYCJQ7ECFJQHQR2FKYX7CTF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Efficient validation of Boson Sampling from binned photon-number distributions

Alex Arkhipov, Benoit Seron, Leonardo Novo, Nicolas J. Cerf

arxiv:2212.09643 v2 · 2022-12-19 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3RTDYCJQ7ECFJQHQR2FKYX7CTF}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T09:11:12.177137Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dc663c0930f90454c0f08e8aac5fe2995dffca1d4bc9b15a07c6bc131ca618ec

Aliases

arxiv: 2212.09643 · arxiv_version: 2212.09643v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2212.09643 · pith_short_12: 3RTDYCJQ7ECF · pith_short_16: 3RTDYCJQ7ECFJQHQ · pith_short_8: 3RTDYCJQ

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/3RTDYCJQ7ECFJQHQR2FKYX7CTF \
  | 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: dc663c0930f90454c0f08e8aac5fe2995dffca1d4bc9b15a07c6bc131ca618ec

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "38b83d26f19c4377fa93c2387912424ce608eb30387cf525a31926302001acb1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2022-12-19T17:22:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "13d2d59487908de336adb0d34e084501bc409dfa2d8ee44e7c58a421c515097b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2212.09643",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}