Pith Number

pith:4OUKRSUX

pith:2006:4OUKRSUXXWU3ZYSMIACLFKDLXM

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A general approach to physical realization of unambiguous quantum-state discrimination

Bing He, J\'anos A. Bergou

arxiv:quant-ph/0603058 v2 · 2006-03-07 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4OUKRSUXXWU3ZYSMIACLFKDLXM}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:08:45.552089Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e3a8a8ca97bda9bce24c4004b2a86bbb138358de8622784d920435e084a09833

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0603058 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0603058v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0603058 · pith_short_12: 4OUKRSUXXWU3 · pith_short_16: 4OUKRSUXXWU3ZYSM · pith_short_8: 4OUKRSUX

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4OUKRSUXXWU3ZYSMIACLFKDLXM \
  | 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: e3a8a8ca97bda9bce24c4004b2a86bbb138358de8622784d920435e084a09833

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ce5530852c42799ee5fccc5b6198b77352042ef475023c76565c2008af11afff",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-03-07T17:44:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ee34a860de2e0bbee84bf6a324a11e7835b6cbf5db5e6c1c575ee1d029d6d46b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0603058",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}