Pith Number

pith:B5SSCDTP

pith:2017:B5SSCDTPWDRLGNU6DOD2GQZMQB

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Coherence generating power of unitary transformations via probabilistic average

Lin Zhang, Shao-Ming Fei, Zhihao Ma, Zhihua Chen

arxiv:1711.02458 v2 · 2017-11-07 · quant-ph · math-ph · math.MP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B5SSCDTPWDRLGNU6DOD2GQZMQB}

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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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First computed	2026-05-18T00:13:21.785078Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0f65210e6fb0e2b3369e1b87a3432c804c484b09629da527542c8439e9544672

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.02458 · arxiv_version: 1711.02458v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.02458 · pith_short_12: B5SSCDTPWDRL · pith_short_16: B5SSCDTPWDRLGNU6 · pith_short_8: B5SSCDTP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/B5SSCDTPWDRLGNU6DOD2GQZMQB \
  | 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: 0f65210e6fb0e2b3369e1b87a3432c804c484b09629da527542c8439e9544672

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "64370ecff5a9669eb0e17168a86568adc961ccef700926336a407abfe9a567e5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math-ph",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-07T13:40:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6b6e56093b4a3a86f64ac2db7241144c8a31601f73bbedde6d2915028f4efab3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.02458",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}