Pith Number

pith:DP45IBHR

pith:1997:DP45IBHRJTAHODRLZZWRZ3U65B

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum Computing

Andrew Steane (Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University)

arxiv:quant-ph/9708022 v2 · 1997-08-12 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DP45IBHRJTAHODRLZZWRZ3U65B}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T04:17:25.727262Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1bf9d404f14cc0770e2bce6d1cee9ee8417a78376f14c9c813eecd10c9e0b18c

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9708022 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9708022v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9708022 · pith_short_12: DP45IBHRJTAH · pith_short_16: DP45IBHRJTAHODRL · pith_short_8: DP45IBHR

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/DP45IBHRJTAHODRLZZWRZ3U65B \
  | 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: 1bf9d404f14cc0770e2bce6d1cee9ee8417a78376f14c9c813eecd10c9e0b18c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "760467ccda7075c78781a33e412415c149b9aeefbb7b785495cb19c20111f082",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-08-12T13:21:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "54de011af7d8c2dd909bdca714a45dadb120ca0da8e684137eaca1f12ed0ec33"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9708022",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}