Pith Number

pith:AXSMAB35

pith:2013:AXSMAB35WVB2QGIXEQKHG6WGLF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Pretending to factor large numbers on a quantum computer

Alex Vargo, Graeme Smith, John A. Smolin

arxiv:1301.7007 v1 · 2013-01-29 · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AXSMAB35WVB2QGIXEQKHG6WGLF}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T03:08:59.464013Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

05e4c0077db543a819172414737ac659458cb984296f1f3f78499fa4f0a3821f

Aliases

arxiv: 1301.7007 · arxiv_version: 1301.7007v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1301.7007 · pith_short_12: AXSMAB35WVB2 · pith_short_16: AXSMAB35WVB2QGIX · pith_short_8: AXSMAB35

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/AXSMAB35WVB2QGIXEQKHG6WGLF \
  | 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: 05e4c0077db543a819172414737ac659458cb984296f1f3f78499fa4f0a3821f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "436ecdf33ef5aae6f228c066a646a220fbd05835607b41ee72a82431b8ea91b9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-01-29T18:08:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "67dcb297ce6a37e486716d4ab56d825d883070b20f7e8b7b216ef0196682ed64"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1301.7007",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}