Pith Number

pith:5CZXVNTR

pith:2018:5CZXVNTR2Y7PTY4ESBWWRHHTGZ

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Bounding the plausibility of physical theories in a device-independent setting via hypothesis testing

Yanbao Zhang, Yeong-Cherng Liang

arxiv:1812.06236 v2 · 2018-12-15 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5CZXVNTR2Y7PTY4ESBWWRHHTGZ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-17T23:52:31.945270Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e8b37ab671d63ef9e384906d689cf3366ea81909da50ab912b377c92ed412f77

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.06236 · arxiv_version: 1812.06236v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.06236 · pith_short_12: 5CZXVNTR2Y7P · pith_short_16: 5CZXVNTR2Y7PTY4E · pith_short_8: 5CZXVNTR

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5CZXVNTR2Y7PTY4ESBWWRHHTGZ \
  | 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: e8b37ab671d63ef9e384906d689cf3366ea81909da50ab912b377c92ed412f77

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "434fe089f2fb56ce10bfe87c2ddcdb4be974c504a25e76933071d2c7a9017016",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-15T05:28:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1912cbef10c27288159546c0881ff794f2dadbabfaef0e6fbe34ebae15941a7e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.06236",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}