Pith Number

pith:52MWAVII

pith:2005:52MWAVIIWJY6ZWRBCDWD4GS4VN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum cloning

Antonio Acin, Nicolas Gisin, Sofyan Iblisdir, Valerio Scarani

arxiv:quant-ph/0511088 v1 · 2005-11-09 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{52MWAVIIWJY6ZWRBCDWD4GS4VN}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-04T16:58:12.292379Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ee99605508b271ecda2110ec3e1a5cab69a8b524258c191b1bf94b9b4b6356ab

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0511088 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0511088v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0511088 · pith_short_12: 52MWAVIIWJY6 · pith_short_16: 52MWAVIIWJY6ZWRB · pith_short_8: 52MWAVII

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/52MWAVIIWJY6ZWRBCDWD4GS4VN \
  | 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: ee99605508b271ecda2110ec3e1a5cab69a8b524258c191b1bf94b9b4b6356ab

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0ade22442f097c37fa98aada83885fd09985c4a7f47f8d10f15361958238f032",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-11-09T09:06:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "65b89f7b6706cec401072213be6821a685dc16135f394345730a6766b0297a28"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0511088",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}