Pith Number

pith:6XHB6ZQH

pith:2015:6XHB6ZQHLSEDVKK72BC6H277NY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Sculpting Quantum Speedups

Scott Aaronson, Shalev Ben-David

arxiv:1512.04016 v1 · 2015-12-13 · quant-ph · cs.CC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6XHB6ZQHLSEDVKK72BC6H277NY}

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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	2026-05-18T01:24:23.337045Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f5ce1f66075c883aa95fd045e3ebff6e371adf8e94dc5af48125ebc47e1675c1

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.04016 · arxiv_version: 1512.04016v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.04016 · pith_short_12: 6XHB6ZQHLSED · pith_short_16: 6XHB6ZQHLSEDVKK7 · pith_short_8: 6XHB6ZQH

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/6XHB6ZQHLSEDVKK72BC6H277NY \
  | 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: f5ce1f66075c883aa95fd045e3ebff6e371adf8e94dc5af48125ebc47e1675c1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1bbf3569cfb1ca32dbff9af55f0247ad78dc486c617255a8ee960bbe62f951a2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-13T08:29:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7977326afbebe6e19808e3859f6a9c9f301bd03a104aff2ff1bc56be85d54ddf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.04016",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}