Pith Number

pith:F6ZS4JEK

pith:2018:F6ZS4JEKQR7LF3BISVQC2SS5BX

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Shaded tangles for the design and verification of quantum circuits

David J. Reutter, Jamie Vicary

arxiv:1805.01540 v2 · 2018-05-01 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{F6ZS4JEKQR7LF3BISVQC2SS5BX}

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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	2026-05-17T23:46:30.585406Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2fb32e248a847eb2ec2895602d4a5d0dff92a2d096cd9a0f38afb54fa2fdfc00

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.01540 · arxiv_version: 1805.01540v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.01540 · pith_short_12: F6ZS4JEKQR7L · pith_short_16: F6ZS4JEKQR7LF3BI · pith_short_8: F6ZS4JEK

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/F6ZS4JEKQR7LF3BISVQC2SS5BX \
  | 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: 2fb32e248a847eb2ec2895602d4a5d0dff92a2d096cd9a0f38afb54fa2fdfc00

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "844fd7a793e0f99fb5565cd3ceedeb142315ddcbaa3013d12fc0f2199c664ec9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-01T10:44:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "90212730dcbe3852271d892d3ae8bf1ae8cfabe2f3cd5f76f4782f1e6bdf81a7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.01540",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}