Pith Number

pith:CFGHME32

pith:2012:CFGHME32OKJZO5CNOO6WMO4VYN

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Proof of finite surface code threshold for matching

Austin G. Fowler

arxiv:1206.0800 v2 · 2012-06-05 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{CFGHME32OKJZO5CNOO6WMO4VYN}

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Proof of a finite threshold for the union-find decoder

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:39:28.584186Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

114c76137a729397744d73bd663b95c35f651a62b2f55b3105970fd1d2480730

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.0800 · arxiv_version: 1206.0800v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.0800 · pith_short_12: CFGHME32OKJZ · pith_short_16: CFGHME32OKJZO5CN · pith_short_8: CFGHME32

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/CFGHME32OKJZO5CNOO6WMO4VYN \
  | 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: 114c76137a729397744d73bd663b95c35f651a62b2f55b3105970fd1d2480730

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1c74b622a8b5128163fbf605657da216296c956f588e91364153909c5225087f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-05T00:23:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "352c7ef62f116cd4fbed6cd356da609dcd277a9552ff1860b0798678f0899646"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.0800",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}