Pith Number

pith:EARXZN4Z

pith:2007:EARXZN4ZX45JGS5WTENTJNRQIJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Checking Equivalence of Quantum Circuits and States

George F. Viamontes, Igor L. Markov, John P. Hayes

arxiv:0705.0017 v2 · 2007-05-01 · quant-ph · cs.ET

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EARXZN4ZX45JGS5WTENTJNRQIJ}

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4 Citations open

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	2026-05-18T04:09:44.545822Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

20237cb799bf3a934bb6991b34b6304264213477ae57e61d655582d5107c1728

Aliases

arxiv: 0705.0017 · arxiv_version: 0705.0017v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0705.0017 · pith_short_12: EARXZN4ZX45J · pith_short_16: EARXZN4ZX45JGS5W · pith_short_8: EARXZN4Z

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/EARXZN4ZX45JGS5WTENTJNRQIJ \
  | 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: 20237cb799bf3a934bb6991b34b6304264213477ae57e61d655582d5107c1728

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b37f97456ce6f20576834b53c0817ead5f3afea716e6d2d8395ffea2a175e208",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.ET"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2007-05-01T16:31:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "35189a9a85140ea79bfe2bf874c4ed533bf2fa431a6568263c92f2120c926a47"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0705.0017",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}