Pith Number

pith:4KPJV6GV

pith:1996:4KPJV6GVEDXLXROBDKU4YOL2AI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Efficient Networks for Quantum Factoring

Amalavoyal N. Chari, David Beckman, John Preskill (Caltech), Srikrishna Devabhaktuni

arxiv:quant-ph/9602016 v1 · 1996-02-21 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4KPJV6GVEDXLXROBDKU4YOL2AI}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-07-04T15:34:57.488516Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e29e9af8d520eebbc5c11aa9cc397a021c95708cf80c0eb77aacc44f6fee28d5

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9602016 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9602016v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9602016 · pith_short_12: 4KPJV6GVEDXL · pith_short_16: 4KPJV6GVEDXLXROB · pith_short_8: 4KPJV6GV

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/4KPJV6GVEDXLXROBDKU4YOL2AI \
  | 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: e29e9af8d520eebbc5c11aa9cc397a021c95708cf80c0eb77aacc44f6fee28d5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "85825e45ed30910450b4545eaf005952618f5edc85eb9c7e429a45ad5b0d766b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-02-21T22:36:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "679d2bf9a74c918af88ea0fb1680c16d9d90eaa38e376d516b48c8ab7d0b1baf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9602016",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}