Pith Number

pith:GVNN7AAR

pith:2017:GVNN7AARVC6BZEDIVIH4IQAWGJ

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Fundamental work cost of quantum processes

Philippe Faist, Renato Renner

arxiv:1709.00506 v2 · 2017-09-01 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GVNN7AARVC6BZEDIVIH4IQAWGJ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:16:45.030260Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

355adf8011a8bc1c9068aa0fc440163252c2daad2781d7cc26221e4c975fec25

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.00506 · arxiv_version: 1709.00506v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.00506 · pith_short_12: GVNN7AARVC6B · pith_short_16: GVNN7AARVC6BZEDI · pith_short_8: GVNN7AAR

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/GVNN7AARVC6BZEDIVIH4IQAWGJ \
  | 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: 355adf8011a8bc1c9068aa0fc440163252c2daad2781d7cc26221e4c975fec25

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ae5c2c4026c6c8965dd14b125f4dfe00e8bed62c19f82b0ea0b2dcf6210adf7a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-01T23:24:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "42f16c352fe7dbf78e4128c4e88ac59110bc6502f5dce0461a32492f94e24e78"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.00506",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}