Pith Number

pith:HRTPY3C4

pith:2016:HRTPY3C4KCTK4QX3AVZI2NEN5Z

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A Software Methodology for Compiling Quantum Programs

Damian S. Steiger, Krysta Svore, Matthias Troyer, Thomas H\"aner

arxiv:1604.01401 v2 · 2016-04-05 · cs.PL · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HRTPY3C4KCTK4QX3AVZI2NEN5Z}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:10:14.095442Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3c66fc6c5c50a6ae42fb05728d348dee69724378e1f95e700e5c695fd52ccddf

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.01401 · arxiv_version: 1604.01401v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.01401 · pith_short_12: HRTPY3C4KCTK · pith_short_16: HRTPY3C4KCTK4QX3 · pith_short_8: HRTPY3C4

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HRTPY3C4KCTK4QX3AVZI2NEN5Z \
  | 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: 3c66fc6c5c50a6ae42fb05728d348dee69724378e1f95e700e5c695fd52ccddf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a3d0049c2a3759dd517e92e8dd97e731fc2b27ae7986367bd92cccf9bf85d21c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.PL",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-05T20:00:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "45f3ce74a97191ef15dd2e20f929ff18e835f8ab09a5745b6bbcdf2506a85cd4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.01401",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}