Pith Number

pith:BS2JNZV4

pith:2019:BS2JNZV4P4DKAPQOE4SWQHS4AH

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Quantum Networks For Open Science

Andrei Nomerotski, Ben Yoo, Don Towsley, Inder Monga, Nicholas Peters, Prem Kumar, Ray Newell, Saikat Guha, Scott Hamilton, Thomas Ndousse-Fetter, Tom Chapuran, Warren Grice

arxiv:1910.11658 v1 · 2019-03-27 · quant-ph · physics.optics

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BS2JNZV4P4DKAPQOE4SWQHS4AH}

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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	2026-07-05T00:14:55.921878Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0cb496e6bc7f06a03e0e2725681e5c01c991e626135d34a498b67f3d68895267

Aliases

arxiv: 1910.11658 · arxiv_version: 1910.11658v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1910.11658 · pith_short_12: BS2JNZV4P4DK · pith_short_16: BS2JNZV4P4DKAPQO · pith_short_8: BS2JNZV4

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/BS2JNZV4P4DKAPQOE4SWQHS4AH \
  | 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: 0cb496e6bc7f06a03e0e2725681e5c01c991e626135d34a498b67f3d68895267

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2868f98e8b2c1da092c308ea2a75a1d7546d9be438f7a53d0488d84d8f56f39d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2019-03-27T13:19:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f1de082046d1119e8ebfcb0fbe5d3141f2ac209d8efaa03d9300b617b02cf05b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1910.11658",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}