Pith Number

pith:B56YYI2G

pith:2012:B56YYI2G3CUZ7BHJNHWEMHY64X

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Three-intensity decoy state method for device independent quantum key distribution with basis dependent errors

Xiang-Bin Wang

arxiv:1207.0392 v3 · 2012-07-02 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B56YYI2G3CUZ7BHJNHWEMHY64X}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:14:50.291147Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0f7d8c2346d8a99f84e969ec461f1ee5d9f4cf58b5d9f0b2ee231ebe3cdbf479

Aliases

arxiv: 1207.0392 · arxiv_version: 1207.0392v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1207.0392 · pith_short_12: B56YYI2G3CUZ · pith_short_16: B56YYI2G3CUZ7BHJ · pith_short_8: B56YYI2G

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/B56YYI2G3CUZ7BHJNHWEMHY64X \
  | 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: 0f7d8c2346d8a99f84e969ec461f1ee5d9f4cf58b5d9f0b2ee231ebe3cdbf479

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "04bc29b6001b19783c3cc2a51a371cbe2d97081760a1f862f9b6c2c73d98d877",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-07-02T14:05:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8f6c731439667abc76405ca7d0e459680a69b77fee46cd3848aa6419a7fb6875"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1207.0392",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}