Pith Number

pith:DV2SF4PA

pith:2018:DV2SF4PAXKSMX7SC3JIVPDGVGS

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Matrix product states and the quantum max-flow/min-cut conjectures

Fulvio Gesmundo, J.M. Landsberg, Michael Walter

arxiv:1801.09106 v2 · 2018-01-27 · quant-ph · math.AG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DV2SF4PAXKSMX7SC3JIVPDGVGS}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:02:55.137956Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1d7522f1e0baa4cbfe42da51578cd534978731d135d735cc60d8d0506d21eee8

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.09106 · arxiv_version: 1801.09106v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.09106 · pith_short_12: DV2SF4PAXKSM · pith_short_16: DV2SF4PAXKSMX7SC · pith_short_8: DV2SF4PA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DV2SF4PAXKSMX7SC3JIVPDGVGS \
  | 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: 1d7522f1e0baa4cbfe42da51578cd534978731d135d735cc60d8d0506d21eee8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1bfe6efcb7d0e2b956859f7b8d8e404816ee0e2ac69f9ee2fecfedd005c94c05",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.AG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-27T15:53:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b3116d7ee75b71c7416b4d1a8fcdeafb8ec0899b664818d3a033fb3ae6b501ff"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.09106",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}