Pith Number

pith:4AVGYVFV

pith:2012:4AVGYVFVCGHNKAGZN6IHPTWLZF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Distilling one-qubit magic states into Toffoli states

Bryan Eastin

arxiv:1212.4872 v2 · 2012-12-19 · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4AVGYVFVCGHNKAGZN6IHPTWLZF}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T03:29:50.303581Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e02a6c54b5118ed500d96f9077cecbc97034c575b0e56c0a2f0259969c3e0203

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.4872 · arxiv_version: 1212.4872v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.4872 · pith_short_12: 4AVGYVFVCGHN · pith_short_16: 4AVGYVFVCGHNKAGZ · pith_short_8: 4AVGYVFV

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/4AVGYVFVCGHNKAGZN6IHPTWLZF \
  | 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: e02a6c54b5118ed500d96f9077cecbc97034c575b0e56c0a2f0259969c3e0203

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "88d2cf7cc64e8deb2162f2e5eda5a4b660dba6bfef251639ac9088826db37fcd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-19T22:18:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d064757f3a83148f50cc1729a939ffa42c5c7bae98c7e728ada2225853213e97"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.4872",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}