Pith Number

pith:46LNRIFN

pith:2010:46LNRIFN7ES2SWMBCM6V7WC3JJ

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A new quantum mechanical photon counting distribution formula

Hong-chun Yuan, Hong-yi Fan, Li-yun Hu

arxiv:1011.4402 v1 · 2010-11-19 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{46LNRIFN7ES2SWMBCM6V7WC3JJ}

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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	2026-05-18T04:35:14.235812Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e796d8a0adf925a95981133d5fd85b4a7c501288947747f992ba69f81b6a452c

Aliases

arxiv: 1011.4402 · arxiv_version: 1011.4402v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1011.4402 · pith_short_12: 46LNRIFN7ES2 · pith_short_16: 46LNRIFN7ES2SWMB · pith_short_8: 46LNRIFN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/46LNRIFN7ES2SWMBCM6V7WC3JJ \
  | 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: e796d8a0adf925a95981133d5fd85b4a7c501288947747f992ba69f81b6a452c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fbb8a6ca9abdb7cdf5501e14581f9c4ea66800da60226b702796f7d9299e2e22",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-11-19T11:31:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "689415712e3ce4779a26ffaca7d8c87c97cbdccf3475f694c2779b9926ecdc1f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1011.4402",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}