Pith Number

pith:CGXGEBFJ

pith:2003:CGXGEBFJHOBWLL3QAO7U5IUF43

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Multilinear Formulas and Skepticism of Quantum Computing

Scott Aaronson

arxiv:quant-ph/0311039 v4 · 2003-11-07 · quant-ph · cs.CC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CGXGEBFJHOBWLL3QAO7U5IUF43}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T14:46:26.928066Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

11ae6204a93b8365af7003bf4ea285e6f291cc3e0e5091a5228bf3e880f2a381

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0311039 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0311039v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0311039 · pith_short_12: CGXGEBFJHOBW · pith_short_16: CGXGEBFJHOBWLL3Q · pith_short_8: CGXGEBFJ

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/CGXGEBFJHOBWLL3QAO7U5IUF43 \
  | 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: 11ae6204a93b8365af7003bf4ea285e6f291cc3e0e5091a5228bf3e880f2a381

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9c3cd85e2d3ef7c1c90f60712388971a65d95066d41d5573889e22e5f8c78c62",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-11-07T00:53:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7c8177c0494712f9f843c4e3d9ac2ef99270872d464602224b2fcdda224c0b82"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0311039",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}