Pith Number

pith:72BGFEQ5

pith:1998:72BGFEQ5UKQHTJ7EWCOIM4VZKM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum computation over continuous variables

Samuel L. Braunstein, Seth Lloyd

arxiv:quant-ph/9810082 v1 · 1998-10-27 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{72BGFEQ5UKQHTJ7EWCOIM4VZKM}

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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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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T16:11:01.612458Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fe8262921da2a079a7e4b09c8672b9533ff8a38ee97a6aec325b4f6bb234cbb1

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9810082 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9810082v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9810082 · pith_short_12: 72BGFEQ5UKQH · pith_short_16: 72BGFEQ5UKQHTJ7E · pith_short_8: 72BGFEQ5

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/72BGFEQ5UKQHTJ7EWCOIM4VZKM \
  | 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: fe8262921da2a079a7e4b09c8672b9533ff8a38ee97a6aec325b4f6bb234cbb1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f31b6089083e3ed36a4ae655625b82bb92a16589b88cf94bc67d9e7c385b5575",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-10-27T15:29:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ea6fc2b3a5b7b626d9378b453573421475067b0364b585db8e506ebb24865989"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9810082",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}