Pith Number

pith:F3T5UUQ3

pith:2016:F3T5UUQ352CVMGCE5P627LMSR7

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Randomized query complexity of sabotaged and composed functions

Robin Kothari, Shalev Ben-David

arxiv:1605.09071 v2 · 2016-05-29 · cs.CC · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{F3T5UUQ352CVMGCE5P627LMSR7}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:55:57.948628Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2ee7da521bee85561844ebfdafad928fc20e7debcb0dcc16a88f7bbf5add345d

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.09071 · arxiv_version: 1605.09071v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.09071 · pith_short_12: F3T5UUQ352CV · pith_short_16: F3T5UUQ352CVMGCE · pith_short_8: F3T5UUQ3

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/F3T5UUQ352CVMGCE5P627LMSR7 \
  | 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: 2ee7da521bee85561844ebfdafad928fc20e7debcb0dcc16a88f7bbf5add345d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dd8d8f13ad7f0fbd82626a8cf0d2f938aee73a242090426683e2dd201b1dc10e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-29T22:46:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "eefcc311588049a446f349889b8ab749b7c03b431abfcee118acf3145655a4dd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1605.09071",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}