Pith Number

pith:6LCA3HAB

pith:2016:6LCA3HABI4EWBDH5MHLN4V7L67

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Resolution to the quantum-classical dilemma in thermal ghost imaging

Lixiang Chen

arxiv:1608.02879 v1 · 2016-08-09 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6LCA3HABI4EWBDH5MHLN4V7L67}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:09:33.445486Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f2c40d9c014709608cfd61d6de57ebf7f173515ea0d9d5fa4817aee113a632c5

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.02879 · arxiv_version: 1608.02879v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.02879 · pith_short_12: 6LCA3HABI4EW · pith_short_16: 6LCA3HABI4EWBDH5 · pith_short_8: 6LCA3HAB

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6LCA3HABI4EWBDH5MHLN4V7L67 \
  | 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: f2c40d9c014709608cfd61d6de57ebf7f173515ea0d9d5fa4817aee113a632c5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9b9208b705823fc23567677a8e1b7462d228b2a140733f88faab72d7fd7de01b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-09T17:27:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "055a79a386c870b8fb0d9d87b9f11aa1b93cd413284d1d54aad0e9526c1890d0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.02879",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}