Pith Number

pith:C5IIAUOS

pith:2026:C5IIAUOSRTFYVSBZ4ANHOAVAFR

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A lower bound on the classical simulation cost of star-network correlations

Martin J. Renner

arxiv:2608.03986 v1 · 2026-08-04 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C5IIAUOSRTFYVSBZ4ANHOAVAFR}

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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	2026-08-05T01:37:38.807004Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

17508051d28ccb8ac839e01a7702a02c62964240ac515dc881720114d9a54198

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.03986 · arxiv_version: 2608.03986v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.03986 · pith_short_12: C5IIAUOSRTFY · pith_short_16: C5IIAUOSRTFYVSBZ · pith_short_8: C5IIAUOS

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/C5IIAUOSRTFYVSBZ4ANHOAVAFR \
  | 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: 17508051d28ccb8ac839e01a7702a02c62964240ac515dc881720114d9a54198

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cfa8d4e9c3075fce610a25bbc1876a6126971c36029bef9c898e81deccc74827",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-04T17:51:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d302c87c86d94b6c737bb0d5a3b08a08339119d9c5ea7db35f8278c25bc72abb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.03986",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}