Pith Number

pith:H5PCL6H2

pith:1997:H5PCL6H2DKXTZE62JDBDZ7KNRC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Nonbinary quantum codes

Eric M. Rains (AT&T Research)

arxiv:quant-ph/9703048 v1 · 1997-03-25 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{H5PCL6H2DKXTZE62JDBDZ7KNRC}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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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1 paper in Pith

Gauss law codes and vacuum codes from lattice gauge theories

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T14:47:06.691881Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3f5e25f8fa1aaf3c93da48c23cfd4d88b4f2eab2323e74469fe40c889c0c7a90

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9703048 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9703048v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9703048 · pith_short_12: H5PCL6H2DKXT · pith_short_16: H5PCL6H2DKXTZE62 · pith_short_8: H5PCL6H2

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/H5PCL6H2DKXTZE62JDBDZ7KNRC \
  | 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: 3f5e25f8fa1aaf3c93da48c23cfd4d88b4f2eab2323e74469fe40c889c0c7a90

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2d827ca85fc20d7e9fc66518aa7620c092580b0a60b1b2c3fd6ce0a9379f836e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-03-25T18:56:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8e3a7618905841308126b8a720b858eeea7376654397e77cff263036f39b5e0f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9703048",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}