Pith Number

pith:C5AXBX5S

pith:2017:C5AXBX5SCVSUTHM6HMUEL5XIEK

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On the Complexity of Random Quantum Computations and the Jones Polynomial

Michael J. Bremner, Ryan L. Mann

arxiv:1711.00686 v1 · 2017-11-02 · quant-ph · cs.CC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C5AXBX5SCVSUTHM6HMUEL5XIEK}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:31:29.796196Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

174170dfb21565499d9e3b2845f6e822ad9ba2f2120384d88799b87a07e427be

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.00686 · arxiv_version: 1711.00686v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.00686 · pith_short_12: C5AXBX5SCVSU · pith_short_16: C5AXBX5SCVSUTHM6 · pith_short_8: C5AXBX5S

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/C5AXBX5SCVSUTHM6HMUEL5XIEK \
  | 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: 174170dfb21565499d9e3b2845f6e822ad9ba2f2120384d88799b87a07e427be

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "886c3df2dedd27bb114eb607d19bbcd6441e25217d694fca931b7c2e2a2cc631",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-02T11:15:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e875605c21ce9e15f0d254ddfc82c2fffe3ecceda01aa84aba16958730562541"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.00686",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}