Pith Number

pith:6NSXHDLA

pith:2010:6NSXHDLA2ZWLQWZQ5B2YYPWLFE

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Daowen Qiu, Xiangfu Zou

arxiv:1010.4233 v1 · 2010-10-20 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6NSXHDLA2ZWLQWZQ5B2YYPWLFE}

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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	2026-05-18T02:05:00.526778Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f365738d60d66cb85b30e8758c3ecb2914326e86e4852dfd70ddf05cec295965

Aliases

arxiv: 1010.4233 · arxiv_version: 1010.4233v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1010.4233 · pith_short_12: 6NSXHDLA2ZWL · pith_short_16: 6NSXHDLA2ZWLQWZQ · pith_short_8: 6NSXHDLA

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/6NSXHDLA2ZWLQWZQ5B2YYPWLFE \
  | 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: f365738d60d66cb85b30e8758c3ecb2914326e86e4852dfd70ddf05cec295965

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7a5f3ae9a33fe893818416721182a39944862cb002a3794745ddc09dfee2fb13",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-10-20T15:40:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6ee41b6025bca5c75fbd7f71cf2a9300d1eb4e02e7c788a96a1d6f1bb233b636"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1010.4233",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}