Pith Number

pith:3VEQ6VZX

pith:2020:3VEQ6VZXVXXRMVGGDHJ2CSNZVQ

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Exact and approximate continuous-variable gate decompositions

Nicol\'as Quesada, Timjan Kalajdzievski

arxiv:2010.07453 v2 · 2020-10-15 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3VEQ6VZXVXXRMVGGDHJ2CSNZVQ}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-05T02:13:51.873756Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dd490f5737adef1654c619d3a149b9ac14e775c31333626493480878a1b132a1

Aliases

arxiv: 2010.07453 · arxiv_version: 2010.07453v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2010.07453 · pith_short_12: 3VEQ6VZXVXXR · pith_short_16: 3VEQ6VZXVXXRMVGG · pith_short_8: 3VEQ6VZX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3VEQ6VZXVXXRMVGGDHJ2CSNZVQ \
  | 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: dd490f5737adef1654c619d3a149b9ac14e775c31333626493480878a1b132a1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "705ba30874faf7b0a8a5b7570efe30a1d0fe03f146b5ddc208eb6a8349c627e2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2020-10-15T00:41:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "abb18f0f88ee394c341407da08588c4ecc9ca92c30b2236fff36f072a5d6f9f1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2010.07453",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}