Pith Number

pith:BRASOKJW

pith:2017:BRASOKJWQ6CZZEIBHG2BJCLBNU

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Getting the public involved in Quantum Error Correction

James R. Wootton

arxiv:1712.09649 v1 · 2017-12-27 · quant-ph · physics.ed-ph · physics.pop-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BRASOKJWQ6CZZEIBHG2BJCLBNU}

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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	2026-05-18T00:27:07.710359Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0c4127293687859c910139b41489616d1a9728af1285a4ff8e62c70dbb5ca8b3

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.09649 · arxiv_version: 1712.09649v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.09649 · pith_short_12: BRASOKJWQ6CZ · pith_short_16: BRASOKJWQ6CZZEIB · pith_short_8: BRASOKJW

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/BRASOKJWQ6CZZEIBHG2BJCLBNU \
  | 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: 0c4127293687859c910139b41489616d1a9728af1285a4ff8e62c70dbb5ca8b3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d2194f020809ab1d69b81eb5495442567472e2349ee303de6882a51168249c48",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.ed-ph",
      "physics.pop-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-27T18:38:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a03858ad45a91089f2acf15897c57a2ff01eda9c591f2d76a033a23eff21cf27"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.09649",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}