Pith Number

pith:4BBWKXZR

pith:2011:4BBWKXZRHRFEGYBPDTYP2SIVBZ

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An introduction to reliable quantum computation

Panos Aliferis

arxiv:1107.2148 v3 · 2011-07-11 · 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{4BBWKXZRHRFEGYBPDTYP2SIVBZ}

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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	2026-05-18T03:05:28.683843Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e043655f313c4a43602f1cf0fd49150e60eb38bf3cd4c455f1e320fa03db3c86

Aliases

arxiv: 1107.2148 · arxiv_version: 1107.2148v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1107.2148 · pith_short_12: 4BBWKXZRHRFE · pith_short_16: 4BBWKXZRHRFEGYBP · pith_short_8: 4BBWKXZR

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/4BBWKXZRHRFEGYBPDTYP2SIVBZ \
  | 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: e043655f313c4a43602f1cf0fd49150e60eb38bf3cd4c455f1e320fa03db3c86

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0666fa643ab67f00c601afa3eba8efe821e822c4407d7bae13ba43a63418a8ac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-07-11T21:04:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "22017ca9d6e2848b1fc8b7a601a698990ff02bc0df5bf70dfb1a92eb21be97ac"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1107.2148",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}