Pith Number

pith:BX4JVML6

pith:2015:BX4JVML6NEB7FWEIAXVJH22BRN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum Alternation: Prospects and Problems

Costin B\u{a}descu, Prakash Panangaden

arxiv:1511.01567 v1 · 2015-11-05 · cs.PL · 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{BX4JVML6NEB7FWEIAXVJH22BRN}

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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	2026-05-18T01:27:45.249029Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0df89ab17e6903f2d88805ea93eb418b6eed86d5f24926eeb9cd56c7fa44e740

Aliases

arxiv: 1511.01567 · arxiv_version: 1511.01567v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.01567 · pith_short_12: BX4JVML6NEB7 · pith_short_16: BX4JVML6NEB7FWEI · pith_short_8: BX4JVML6

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/BX4JVML6NEB7FWEIAXVJH22BRN \
  | 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: 0df89ab17e6903f2d88805ea93eb418b6eed86d5f24926eeb9cd56c7fa44e740

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "339c881305754cecb79fab6b13c979ac81fb801c362332bf9504632787079ef5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.PL",
    "submitted_at": "2015-11-05T01:41:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b9e848d7664bf76014add61a0946587babb41aa0c081e7c58db29bbf9659de91"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1511.01567",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}