Pith Number

pith:6W6SO6M2

pith:2006:6W6SO6M2WKI323CMOIQDB3LPUI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Cloning and Broadcasting in Generic Probabilistic Theories

Alexander Wilce, Howard Barnum, Jonathan Barrett, Matthew Leifer

arxiv:quant-ph/0611295 v1 · 2006-11-30 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6W6SO6M2WKI323CMOIQDB3LPUI}

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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	2026-07-04T14:57:48.078159Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f5bd27799ab291bd6c4c722030ed6fa234eb7a0c8e60e9fd91a5f433748c5e32

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0611295 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0611295v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0611295 · pith_short_12: 6W6SO6M2WKI3 · pith_short_16: 6W6SO6M2WKI323CM · pith_short_8: 6W6SO6M2

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/6W6SO6M2WKI323CMOIQDB3LPUI \
  | 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: f5bd27799ab291bd6c4c722030ed6fa234eb7a0c8e60e9fd91a5f433748c5e32

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9e620da4b6d3ba83abd63447a4da7cf5d718943ea6efb12f0aa7c98c4eeff387",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-11-30T18:39:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b9e34695c0bb63d4bc37aa3b6abada22d6738f8102d92288ec184974688ae357"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0611295",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}