Pith Number

pith:BPC5EIBV

pith:2017:BPC5EIBV4IGM5E3NHGEZA34F7H

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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Ding Jia, Nitica Sakharwade

arxiv:1706.05532 v1 · 2017-06-17 · 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{BPC5EIBV4IGM5E3NHGEZA34F7H}

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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	2026-05-18T00:20:39.563670Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0bc5d22035e20cce936d3989906f85f9f932d13d59e3bff7fa5c7d5b5c68124d

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.05532 · arxiv_version: 1706.05532v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.05532 · pith_short_12: BPC5EIBV4IGM · pith_short_16: BPC5EIBV4IGM5E3N · pith_short_8: BPC5EIBV

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/BPC5EIBV4IGM5E3NHGEZA34F7H \
  | 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: 0bc5d22035e20cce936d3989906f85f9f932d13d59e3bff7fa5c7d5b5c68124d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1efb1c5dfb422cd8952f8db6cb1539bbc5eced7155be30f7d58ef0fb8541acea",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-17T13:19:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "458677432cb128d40e2303689b7ae816377dc4e81a3c0948dd8d6fcf29028348"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.05532",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}