Pith Number

pith:DPJFC3C3

pith:2008:DPJFC3C3YQR3KUIDEZWQY7FRD3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the hitting times of quantum versus random walks

Ashwin Nayak, Frederic Magniez, Miklos Santha, Peter C. Richter

arxiv:0808.0084 v1 · 2008-08-01 · quant-ph · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DPJFC3C3YQR3KUIDEZWQY7FRD3}

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Record completeness

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5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:20:32.801231Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1bd2516c5bc423b55103266d0c7cb11ecf6143c60d18cd2f7dcabf1b76e256ae

Aliases

arxiv: 0808.0084 · arxiv_version: 0808.0084v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0808.0084 · pith_short_12: DPJFC3C3YQR3 · pith_short_16: DPJFC3C3YQR3KUID · pith_short_8: DPJFC3C3

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/DPJFC3C3YQR3KUIDEZWQY7FRD3 \
  | 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: 1bd2516c5bc423b55103266d0c7cb11ecf6143c60d18cd2f7dcabf1b76e256ae

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "004a4657edc9c875d12286af8c81a42d20555c221f16f7cd08fb49e9ac1f860b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-08-01T14:45:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5e5cf859b814cbd5beaddcfa1260a5682a5607116d2607e13fd9fad4dba7ca54"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0808.0084",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}