Pith Number

pith:77QWHNKO

pith:2014:77QWHNKORZNFE67OSLYKN2LD5C

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum-noise limited communication with low probability of detection

Boulat A. Bash, Dennis Goeckel, Don Towsley, Saikat Guha

arxiv:1403.5616 v1 · 2014-03-22 · cs.IT · math.IT · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{77QWHNKORZNFE67OSLYKN2LD5C}

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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	2026-05-18T02:55:49.338642Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ffe163b54e8e5a527bee92f0a6e963e8b644b32093e84d38aa0534ff463bbfd1

Aliases

arxiv: 1403.5616 · arxiv_version: 1403.5616v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1403.5616 · pith_short_12: 77QWHNKORZNF · pith_short_16: 77QWHNKORZNFE67O · pith_short_8: 77QWHNKO

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/77QWHNKORZNFE67OSLYKN2LD5C \
  | 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: ffe163b54e8e5a527bee92f0a6e963e8b644b32093e84d38aa0534ff463bbfd1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "80830bdc9d57f0c1e0ec1112f558949487aede445b4e66ef2b6340c61c48a7df",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-03-22T04:57:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e9faf8b5aa13067f9943cf315eb5b03430b95e202b39fd183cec6459234ce529"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1403.5616",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}