Pith Number

pith:BA66YDC5

pith:2018:BA66YDC5EDHL4C53FLGJWMC4JW

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Quantum Statistical Inference

Zhikuan Zhao

arxiv:1812.04877 v1 · 2018-12-12 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BA66YDC5EDHL4C53FLGJWMC4JW}

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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	2026-05-17T23:58:27.089505Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

083dec0c5d20cebe0bbb2acc9b305c4d81087f93ebecaf50c7e6604b3f924bed

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.04877 · arxiv_version: 1812.04877v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.04877 · pith_short_12: BA66YDC5EDHL · pith_short_16: BA66YDC5EDHL4C53 · pith_short_8: BA66YDC5

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/BA66YDC5EDHL4C53FLGJWMC4JW \
  | 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: 083dec0c5d20cebe0bbb2acc9b305c4d81087f93ebecaf50c7e6604b3f924bed

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "94052303b581e6825d94462c4759893ef52feba90430094bb4a822bbee097d7c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-12T10:18:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fc19635ed465e6a8bafce6813ab905e7f91364c3365b2747674b49f26bb6b714"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.04877",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}