Pith Number

pith:HFNWUC6S

pith:2008:HFNWUC6SEBZIW34VGEAIPRB32L

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Efficient photon sorter in a high-dimensional Hilbert space

Warner A. Miller

arxiv:0810.0336 v3 · 2008-10-02 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HFNWUC6SEBZIW34VGEAIPRB32L}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:31:30.018925Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

395b6a0bd220728b6f95310087c43bd2e68b6fa506fa0c3ad8260e36393f3b96

Aliases

arxiv: 0810.0336 · arxiv_version: 0810.0336v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0810.0336 · pith_short_12: HFNWUC6SEBZI · pith_short_16: HFNWUC6SEBZIW34V · pith_short_8: HFNWUC6S

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/HFNWUC6SEBZIW34VGEAIPRB32L \
  | 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: 395b6a0bd220728b6f95310087c43bd2e68b6fa506fa0c3ad8260e36393f3b96

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3799979672e0d1cae031dd272123bc2a89c548ea859d5a7d5581d56249c5bc20",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-10-02T17:09:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "af2d618d77110ff9a4df91fb18c1580844ce4fc9ad2c82e3e9550e3379c674e5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0810.0336",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}