Pith Number

pith:4IFPEHZP

pith:2017:4IFPEHZPZNJHASUCRQN337BA57

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Theory-Independent Measure of Coherence

Fei-Lei Xiong, Liang-Liang Sun, Sixia Yu, Zeng-Bing Chen

arxiv:1705.01044 v2 · 2017-05-02 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4IFPEHZPZNJHASUCRQN337BA57}

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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	2026-05-18T00:24:37.718021Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e20af21f2fcb52704a828c1bbdfc20eff9670afb913c9051e6e785f623104478

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.01044 · arxiv_version: 1705.01044v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.01044 · pith_short_12: 4IFPEHZPZNJH · pith_short_16: 4IFPEHZPZNJHASUC · pith_short_8: 4IFPEHZP

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/4IFPEHZPZNJHASUCRQN337BA57 \
  | 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: e20af21f2fcb52704a828c1bbdfc20eff9670afb913c9051e6e785f623104478

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b4e6f4176640a94a5000cf6ee8ae12234bed20e40bb91293615fc37bfcedb16a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-02T16:09:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e214a9e6cf1b29e3019c8e55935adb4cb80fb176de19e4078617883da01a1800"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.01044",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}