Pith Number

pith:GMWK4PL3

pith:2020:GMWK4PL35KANJOXGMLPDNZZW33

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Optimal single-shot discrimination of optical modes

Asaph Ho, Ignatius William Primaatmaja, Valerio Scarani

arxiv:2012.11104 v1 · 2020-12-21 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GMWK4PL35KANJOXGMLPDNZZW33}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-05T02:38:53.468180Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

332cae3d7bea80d4bae662de36e736decf3f1565f8d393dbe75e9db56c3a7240

Aliases

arxiv: 2012.11104 · arxiv_version: 2012.11104v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2012.11104 · pith_short_12: GMWK4PL35KAN · pith_short_16: GMWK4PL35KANJOXG · pith_short_8: GMWK4PL3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GMWK4PL35KANJOXGMLPDNZZW33 \
  | 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: 332cae3d7bea80d4bae662de36e736decf3f1565f8d393dbe75e9db56c3a7240

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "56a041c7ad7efaef0c732f6cbb43a0be7a373fe46f1fba4d3bc1a7da82446735",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2020-12-21T03:47:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "62737ffcd3791bf458c3d7075214b0b1b7a797d626cd36c2ba8df577d7cb4562"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2012.11104",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}