Pith Number

pith:FLM7RGWN

pith:1998:FLM7RGWNI6R3BRIHRUSJFRJY6D

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Quantum search on structured problems

Lov K. Grover (Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ)

arxiv:quant-ph/9802035 v1 · 1998-02-12 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FLM7RGWNI6R3BRIHRUSJFRJY6D}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:37:52.948327Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2ad9f89acd47a3b0c5078d2492c538f0f8955705a65b7ffd7cfb0dfae8cec917

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9802035 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9802035v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9802035 · pith_short_12: FLM7RGWNI6R3 · pith_short_16: FLM7RGWNI6R3BRIH · pith_short_8: FLM7RGWN

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/FLM7RGWNI6R3BRIHRUSJFRJY6D \
  | 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: 2ad9f89acd47a3b0c5078d2492c538f0f8955705a65b7ffd7cfb0dfae8cec917

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "39fc0908abb56d5c44711d4e4a9a2161a9870bdd9b03ea4cf99517ed408e02b8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-02-12T17:04:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e5206739be69533ee32743c7ecb949961c089f7d6ecaf0f0d2ca46fd2d5dd8b1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9802035",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}