Pith Number

pith:DXUSTQ5T

pith:1996:DXUSTQ5TYQKLXB6OSWEEU5J5VR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum Weight Enumerators

Eric M. Rains

arxiv:quant-ph/9612015 v1 · 1996-12-02 · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DXUSTQ5TYQKLXB6OSWEEU5J5VR}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-04T14:47:05.937879Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1de929c3b3c414bb87ce95884a753dac4b34ccfc8c19894a7f84f41182f4a7f2

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9612015 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9612015v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9612015 · pith_short_12: DXUSTQ5TYQKL · pith_short_16: DXUSTQ5TYQKLXB6O · pith_short_8: DXUSTQ5T

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/DXUSTQ5TYQKLXB6OSWEEU5J5VR \
  | 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: 1de929c3b3c414bb87ce95884a753dac4b34ccfc8c19894a7f84f41182f4a7f2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "706deebff795d2b202ca4a191a28c9280cc640afa8c6990626461f56c2ced925",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-12-02T18:17:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bcfe83b5d5df55d4f895aaaecfb727401d9f54f366d160fb5bc538c15c033a1f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9612015",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}