Pith Number

pith:6W7CY54O

pith:1996:6W7CY54O2KBHANVBBBOEW2ZWHF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Tight bounds on quantum searching

Alain Tapp (Universite de Montreal), Gilles Brassard (Universite de Montreal), Michel Boyer (Universite de Montreal), Peter Hoeyer (Odense University)

arxiv:quant-ph/9605034 v1 · 1996-05-23 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6W7CY54O2KBHANVBBBOEW2ZWHF}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:37:53.377130Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f5be2c778ed2827036a1085c4b6b36395c1f063fac0db682c115a263bb6672b7

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9605034 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9605034v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9605034 · pith_short_12: 6W7CY54O2KBH · pith_short_16: 6W7CY54O2KBHANVB · pith_short_8: 6W7CY54O

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/6W7CY54O2KBHANVBBBOEW2ZWHF \
  | 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: f5be2c778ed2827036a1085c4b6b36395c1f063fac0db682c115a263bb6672b7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3961481726448d72f4421d1dc6f395998d3d5e91292d99b28d4607a5ceffef54",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-05-23T18:26:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d210da47c3ee23034178e050ed1cc79d667631f39f8d572bee39d2dbb9962137"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9605034",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}