Pith Number

pith:G3FKKJVM

pith:2020:G3FKKJVMROC2OF54ESYQSLEVFY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Faster classical Boson Sampling

Peter Clifford, Rapha\"el Clifford

arxiv:2005.04214 v2 · 2020-05-07 · quant-ph · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{G3FKKJVMROC2OF54ESYQSLEVFY}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-05T01:05:50.131554Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

36caa526ac8b85a717bc24b1092c952e342aea26c0d9edde65b372e579846fff

Aliases

arxiv: 2005.04214 · arxiv_version: 2005.04214v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2005.04214 · pith_short_12: G3FKKJVMROC2 · pith_short_16: G3FKKJVMROC2OF54 · pith_short_8: G3FKKJVM

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/G3FKKJVMROC2OF54ESYQSLEVFY \
  | 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: 36caa526ac8b85a717bc24b1092c952e342aea26c0d9edde65b372e579846fff

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7c36418e5c20700fbc4cd22004e1c3fadd6f1ed91ad9344d800a267adf6aab89",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2020-05-07T20:01:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "82afb5958313d742620a6790fa2e1a610f59397b236a1caa75d29426f72ca06b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2005.04214",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}