Pith Number

pith:GFVJYJCK

pith:2026:GFVJYJCKNK3EM52P5VQCWGZU33

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Cryptographic Structure Required for Verifying Qubits

Itay Shalit, James Bartusek

arxiv:2606.05527 v1 · 2026-06-04 · quant-ph · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GFVJYJCKNK3EM52P5VQCWGZU33}

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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	2026-06-05T01:14:53.831539Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

316a9c244a6ab646774fed602b1b34dee5e9ce5da1e1dd76d686e75c72159852

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.05527 · arxiv_version: 2606.05527v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.05527 · pith_short_12: GFVJYJCKNK3E · pith_short_16: GFVJYJCKNK3EM52P · pith_short_8: GFVJYJCK

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/GFVJYJCKNK3EM52P5VQCWGZU33 \
  | 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: 316a9c244a6ab646774fed602b1b34dee5e9ce5da1e1dd76d686e75c72159852

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "418154a0330737b93bb06749daf797124d8707442704a9d332fd14a9f1da2130",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-04T00:16:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "442afab517d4fdbfb9b61d4cebb3645059d2f03d35ac8cf3c7c4eb67993967fc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.05527",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}