Pith Number

pith:DJIRK2MY

pith:2007:DJIRK2MYZC23KJ6OMYK4BH3N7K

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Random multiparty entanglement distillation

Ben Fortescue, Hoi-Kwong Lo

arxiv:0709.4059 v2 · 2007-09-25 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DJIRK2MYZC23KJ6OMYK4BH3N7K}

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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	2026-05-18T03:24:51.153114Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1a51156998c8b5b527ce6615c09f6dfab77fe77b8da67684ed8cf49a0454bc06

Aliases

arxiv: 0709.4059 · arxiv_version: 0709.4059v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0709.4059 · pith_short_12: DJIRK2MYZC23 · pith_short_16: DJIRK2MYZC23KJ6O · pith_short_8: DJIRK2MY

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/DJIRK2MYZC23KJ6OMYK4BH3N7K \
  | 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: 1a51156998c8b5b527ce6615c09f6dfab77fe77b8da67684ed8cf49a0454bc06

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "86393fc28259a24465f3e91ac491308fd90be9c5e9e83eb96e85539e5988005f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2007-09-25T23:15:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "196582b1834fcc13ee03c7957c7c52a3a180c224f8bca3de6add6b476a674170"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0709.4059",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}