Pith Number

pith:AVI7X7D2

pith:2010:AVI7X7D26U2L65IH3XZTXPHMJ3

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Probing light polarization with the quantum Chernoff bound

Gunnar Bjork, Iulia Ghiu, Paulina Marian, Tudor A. Marian

arxiv:1008.3858 v1 · 2010-08-23 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AVI7X7D26U2L65IH3XZTXPHMJ3}

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:05:43.698578Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0551fbfc7af534bf7507ddf33bbcec4ef02b215d7b77bc6c7a2efb58a83f7ae4

Aliases

arxiv: 1008.3858 · arxiv_version: 1008.3858v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1008.3858 · pith_short_12: AVI7X7D26U2L · pith_short_16: AVI7X7D26U2L65IH · pith_short_8: AVI7X7D2

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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/AVI7X7D26U2L65IH3XZTXPHMJ3 \
  | 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: 0551fbfc7af534bf7507ddf33bbcec4ef02b215d7b77bc6c7a2efb58a83f7ae4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8917d95e96eb50cb1810bfa98d3f395158462ea0871bd43ae0fc1b113f32c283",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-08-23T17:02:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "40752083de5810d0fefe0caf69da22fee0ecee8649e6612e25f482a72f8a65ef"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1008.3858",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}