Pith Number

pith:4I7K7T4X

pith:2008:4I7K7T4XNPCTKGWCBKIUYRO3GZ

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Classical simulation of quantum computation, the Gottesman-Knill theorem, and slightly beyond

M. Van den Nest

arxiv:0811.0898 v2 · 2008-11-06 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4I7K7T4XNPCTKGWCBKIUYRO3GZ}

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:02:12.324166Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e23eafcf976bc5351ac20a914c45db366a50df3b23abcb10fdb76bc9a9be8a74

Aliases

arxiv: 0811.0898 · arxiv_version: 0811.0898v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0811.0898 · pith_short_12: 4I7K7T4XNPCT · pith_short_16: 4I7K7T4XNPCTKGWC · pith_short_8: 4I7K7T4X

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4I7K7T4XNPCTKGWCBKIUYRO3GZ \
  | 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: e23eafcf976bc5351ac20a914c45db366a50df3b23abcb10fdb76bc9a9be8a74

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e55e6aa8d0da14a9546066700da7d5543a1344e411d8cbdd242acdc972ee06ab",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-11-06T09:12:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "578b92d378b07c982e98ad0f19299e76974da4354bc5f287ff8009c7a9c5b2e9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0811.0898",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}