Pith Number

pith:54225QC4

pith:2026:54225QC427ZLWVLIDI6XU5MQZQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Borrowed Identities: Malleable Distillation Factories and a Unified Numerical Search

Cody Jones, Craig Gidney, Shraddha Singh

arxiv:2606.28518 v1 · 2026-06-26 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{54225QC427ZLWVLIDI6XU5MQZQ}

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-06-30T00:15:16.688304Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ef35aec05cd7f2bb55681a3d7a7590cc09bc05b30b9bcf57d3ff3302e30b9888

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.28518 · arxiv_version: 2606.28518v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.28518 · pith_short_12: 54225QC427ZL · pith_short_16: 54225QC427ZLWVLI · pith_short_8: 54225QC4

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/54225QC427ZLWVLIDI6XU5MQZQ \
  | 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: ef35aec05cd7f2bb55681a3d7a7590cc09bc05b30b9bcf57d3ff3302e30b9888

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c6721aa781d0cf51da497db8c55a9246d049a87d9ddfb7fa1b57594d45a334c7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-26T18:14:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bb94efbacc71f599175fee1d198a7691777f62e9e01a79c620a2173aa2e52fc2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.28518",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}