Pith Number

pith:EGHJC4FX

pith:2021:EGHJC4FX256TSIQ2HMQV7AT7E3

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Scalable authentication and optimal flooding in a quantum network

Alasdair I. Fletcher, Bo Liu, Djeylan Aktas, John G. Rarity, Mario Stip\v{c}evi\'c, Martin Lon\v{c}ari\'c, Naomi R. Solomons, Natarajan Venkatachalam, Rupert Ursin, Sebastian P. Neumann, Siddarth Koduru Joshi, S\"oren Wengerowsky, Stefano Pirandola, \v{Z}eljko Samec

arxiv:2101.12225 v2 · 2021-01-28 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EGHJC4FX256TSIQ2HMQV7AT7E3}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T06:22:55.089836Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

218e9170b7d77d39221a3b215f827f26f95b9280b5c78608e43e7050872331d4

Aliases

arxiv: 2101.12225 · arxiv_version: 2101.12225v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2101.12225 · pith_short_12: EGHJC4FX256T · pith_short_16: EGHJC4FX256TSIQ2 · pith_short_8: EGHJC4FX

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/EGHJC4FX256TSIQ2HMQV7AT7E3 \
  | 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: 218e9170b7d77d39221a3b215f827f26f95b9280b5c78608e43e7050872331d4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "12a9372ff9de035e6e8f031ad23bf5dc6ddf0e8be148aae493f6214269854381",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2021-01-28T19:00:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "10f9b3ec02fce317aac91128786fd60718cf352f24da5fccd0f5eb909e212e2d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2101.12225",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}