Pith Number

pith:HSLDKXHD

pith:2017:HSLDKXHDFK7H25KLWZS47VOM7L

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum key distribution with quantum walks

Andre Souto, Chrysoula Vlachou, Nikola Paunkovic, Paulo Mateus, Walter Krawec

arxiv:1710.07979 v2 · 2017-10-22 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HSLDKXHDFK7H25KLWZS47VOM7L}

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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	2026-05-18T00:04:13.525747Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3c96355ce32abe7d754bb665cfd5ccfafb3b5aa3b5cccd52e5c7b7361589ee9b

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.07979 · arxiv_version: 1710.07979v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.07979 · pith_short_12: HSLDKXHDFK7H · pith_short_16: HSLDKXHDFK7H25KL · pith_short_8: HSLDKXHD

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/HSLDKXHDFK7H25KLWZS47VOM7L \
  | 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: 3c96355ce32abe7d754bb665cfd5ccfafb3b5aa3b5cccd52e5c7b7361589ee9b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0a0e0b7daf667fdfa433e894605c682d81b132db349e706fa9f69f7f94f6c7ce",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-22T17:16:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c828a4e1c250f1b87235373cb84fe3b3b96712009a30cea42704f4cfa10deea7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.07979",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}