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pith:4U5WZPCQ

pith:2013:4U5WZPCQTF53S23VEFAFQ724XH

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Minimum weight perfect matching of fault-tolerant topological quantum error correction in average $O(1)$ parallel time

Austin G. Fowler

arxiv:1307.1740 v3 · 2013-07-06 · quant-ph

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:40:45.742155Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

e53b6cbc50997bb96b752140587f5cb9d81fe400cf9b45138b120b1bc2ce1c60

Aliases

arxiv: 1307.1740 · arxiv_version: 1307.1740v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1307.1740 · pith_short_12: 4U5WZPCQTF53 · pith_short_16: 4U5WZPCQTF53S23V · pith_short_8: 4U5WZPCQ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4U5WZPCQTF53S23VEFAFQ724XH \
  | 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: e53b6cbc50997bb96b752140587f5cb9d81fe400cf9b45138b120b1bc2ce1c60

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-07-06T00:41:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b0732bd9401ff6be2b58efc02af7396067861f9013885de0c86fba7e80631b11"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1307.1740",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
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