Pith Number

pith:HBWBCO4S

pith:2017:HBWBCO4S5EDDTTLD6PGU3OXP6X

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Nicolas Gisin

arxiv:1701.08300 v2 · 2017-01-28 · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HBWBCO4S5EDDTTLD6PGU3OXP6X}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:10:19.523955Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

386c113b92e90639cd63f3cd4dbaeff5e67c4a2fb04698fada2d370c964e3aed

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.08300 · arxiv_version: 1701.08300v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.08300 · pith_short_12: HBWBCO4S5EDD · pith_short_16: HBWBCO4S5EDDTTLD · pith_short_8: HBWBCO4S

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/HBWBCO4S5EDDTTLD6PGU3OXP6X \
  | 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: 386c113b92e90639cd63f3cd4dbaeff5e67c4a2fb04698fada2d370c964e3aed

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7a82da52a98129607cf27141ade04f4170575ce92dca10aedde1e0af4ee6cc28",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-28T16:32:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cab5a0612f4590b557bbe8b1a286cb199a5c42da30d69de79175f8a4d68e0ecf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.08300",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}