Pith Number

pith:5DAKP4I4

pith:2014:5DAKP4I4U5XZDMWVSRSEHWLDDF

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Distinguishability and copiability of programs in general process theories

Giulio Chiribella

arxiv:1411.3035 v2 · 2014-11-12 · quant-ph · cs.IT · cs.LO · math-ph · math.CT · math.IT · math.MP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5DAKP4I4U5XZDMWVSRSEHWLDDF}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:17:24.353972Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e8c0a7f11ca76f91b2d5946443d9631948e3c52b2d6fdc8dfbaded796015b960

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.3035 · arxiv_version: 1411.3035v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.3035 · pith_short_12: 5DAKP4I4U5XZ · pith_short_16: 5DAKP4I4U5XZDMWV · pith_short_8: 5DAKP4I4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5DAKP4I4U5XZDMWVSRSEHWLDDF \
  | 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: e8c0a7f11ca76f91b2d5946443d9631948e3c52b2d6fdc8dfbaded796015b960

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8e0cb4d112fb9e1a9cd1583de66191804aa1935252124fd240161ba2dea50bf7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "cs.LO",
      "math-ph",
      "math.CT",
      "math.IT",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-12T01:15:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e02aba35426a6028845b1391b312b5df312c85ed09f78515e7961e7987cc316a"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1411.3035",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}