Pith Number

pith:4PVTS7A5

pith:2018:4PVTS7A52LCIEYPTQAQTXEWJZV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Approximate recovery with locality and symmetry constraints

C\'edric B\'eny, Fernando Pastawski, Zolt\'an Zimbor\'as

arxiv:1806.10324 v2 · 2018-06-27 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4PVTS7A52LCIEYPTQAQTXEWJZV}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-17T23:48:45.743552Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e3eb397c1dd2c48261f380213b92c9cd7d77fc7723ba9bce379372e884f886ca

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.10324 · arxiv_version: 1806.10324v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.10324 · pith_short_12: 4PVTS7A52LCI · pith_short_16: 4PVTS7A52LCIEYPT · pith_short_8: 4PVTS7A5

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/4PVTS7A52LCIEYPTQAQTXEWJZV \
  | 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: e3eb397c1dd2c48261f380213b92c9cd7d77fc7723ba9bce379372e884f886ca

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2ae62c628152ef4e160a31cadbb6014c39743edff546b95d33aa050b4b93dcd3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-27T07:42:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e8a6a90eb1f79aa06412462bb98a64f46d1394aebba3737859605966002c59f5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.10324",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}