Pith Number

pith:BLEC4EYB

pith:1996:BLEC4EYB5LWCTWTWVOD3FSW7MJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Pasting Quantum Codes

Daniel Gottesman

arxiv:quant-ph/9607027 v1 · 1996-07-31 · 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{BLEC4EYB5LWCTWTWVOD3FSW7MJ}

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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	2026-07-04T14:47:05.080141Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0ac82e1301eaec29da76ab87b2cadf62657cf0eac210370bb49e7ecd551f967a

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9607027 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9607027v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9607027 · pith_short_12: BLEC4EYB5LWC · pith_short_16: BLEC4EYB5LWCTWTW · pith_short_8: BLEC4EYB

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/BLEC4EYB5LWCTWTWVOD3FSW7MJ \
  | 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: 0ac82e1301eaec29da76ab87b2cadf62657cf0eac210370bb49e7ecd551f967a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "041ff721a620054660779f25e137e33ae2a82b1efc70c444023e30e4bacd36b9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-07-31T17:37:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "423436fc1e6b4ced408c641cef749fda629bdf3ed0e83251d47df9a4bb17a774"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9607027",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}