Pith Number

pith:6B6OCM4S

pith:2006:6B6OCM4SUDHGJ74NX4GTHMPEJC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Topological Quantum Computing and the Jones Polynomial

Jr., Louis H. Kauffman, Samuel J. Lomonaco

arxiv:quant-ph/0605004 v1 · 2006-04-29 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6B6OCM4SUDHGJ74NX4GTHMPEJC}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:47:09.287049Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f07ce13392a0ce64ff8dbf0d33b1e448bf639bdfcfc7c78a25b9d1e295f27ec9

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0605004 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0605004v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0605004 · pith_short_12: 6B6OCM4SUDHG · pith_short_16: 6B6OCM4SUDHGJ74N · pith_short_8: 6B6OCM4S

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/6B6OCM4SUDHGJ74NX4GTHMPEJC \
  | 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: f07ce13392a0ce64ff8dbf0d33b1e448bf639bdfcfc7c78a25b9d1e295f27ec9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c75e5d3579354df810722853c9c4c64464751520c2e7b87af38534c534080c07",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-04-29T16:40:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c16f014a06befb6e165362fc49c93db2ab11d5cb4b1aad4ba3be14aa4990fc07"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0605004",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}