Pith Number

pith:472WB22C

pith:2017:472WB22CA7VJRCHVBQYJRKIUTX

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The Wigner branching random walk: Efficient implementation and performance evaluation

Sihong Shao, Yunfeng Xiong

arxiv:1709.02121 v2 · 2017-09-07 · physics.comp-ph · math.PR · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{472WB22CA7VJRCHVBQYJRKIUTX}

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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	2026-05-17T23:44:32.934009Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e7f560eb4207ea9888f50c3098a9149dfe8979758bc4bba842cde14278530cd6

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.02121 · arxiv_version: 1709.02121v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.02121 · pith_short_12: 472WB22CA7VJ · pith_short_16: 472WB22CA7VJRCHV · pith_short_8: 472WB22C

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/472WB22CA7VJRCHVBQYJRKIUTX \
  | 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: e7f560eb4207ea9888f50c3098a9149dfe8979758bc4bba842cde14278530cd6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9817b3f6fed3b8ad40e8ebe7c1aa0bc8152131d67dbe2281262fa7c203ae156c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.comp-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-07T07:50:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8cb380f4690c1841a0e47164bbac252f3f0bab925f8b29da7db1cf9fad4041a9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.02121",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}