Pith Number

pith:GNHOV4FJ

pith:2015:GNHOV4FJYGF3Q3CCFYVPQFI7TZ

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Error correction for encoded quantum annealing

Fernando Pastawski, John Preskill

arxiv:1511.00004 v3 · 2015-10-30 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GNHOV4FJYGF3Q3CCFYVPQFI7TZ}

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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	2026-05-18T01:14:02.703012Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

334eeaf0a9c18bb86c422e2af8151f9e7f24b8f38ddc32c96660a11f9f0d93c7

Aliases

arxiv: 1511.00004 · arxiv_version: 1511.00004v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.00004 · pith_short_12: GNHOV4FJYGF3 · pith_short_16: GNHOV4FJYGF3Q3CC · pith_short_8: GNHOV4FJ

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/GNHOV4FJYGF3Q3CCFYVPQFI7TZ \
  | 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: 334eeaf0a9c18bb86c422e2af8151f9e7f24b8f38ddc32c96660a11f9f0d93c7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7a16f4cc3f151a622a0833130a792fe2aaac01c8499b87c1cf36c09252d4dc1b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-10-30T19:59:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "788d61f0784d70239faa91d17de04b18f33be75f31661163d30c987c859a445e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1511.00004",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}