Pith Number

pith:GITUYH6P

pith:2007:GITUYH6PQCOXXUDYVBJAX2HTPU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Experimentally scalable protocol for identification of correctable codes

David W. Kribs, Easwar Magesan, Joseph Emerson, Marcus Silva

arxiv:0710.1900 v1 · 2007-10-10 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GITUYH6PQCOXXUDYVBJAX2HTPU}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T17:27:02.156249Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

32274c1fcf809d7bd078a8520be8f37d314bb6e95e285397ec24a4aa3d33bc9b

Aliases

arxiv: 0710.1900 · arxiv_version: 0710.1900v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0710.1900 · pith_short_12: GITUYH6PQCOX · pith_short_16: GITUYH6PQCOXXUDY · pith_short_8: GITUYH6P

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/GITUYH6PQCOXXUDYVBJAX2HTPU \
  | 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: 32274c1fcf809d7bd078a8520be8f37d314bb6e95e285397ec24a4aa3d33bc9b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2ebe24cbf6f131b088f6b2340c9e7acdecb3370a44c1a1b26d6c0a45aadc11b4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2007-10-10T01:32:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0493f2bfe0cf89311216a974ae338109a641e5a9bd96e977db9d6d2be03c3353"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0710.1900",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}