Pith Number

pith:HZHGWCSQ

pith:2016:HZHGWCSQX3ERLCHUWEMBBWAZRT

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A simpler algorithm to mark the unknown eigenstates

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arxiv:1611.02680 v1 · 2016-11-08 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HZHGWCSQX3ERLCHUWEMBBWAZRT}

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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	2026-05-18T00:59:51.226792Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3e4e6b0a50bec91588f4b11810d8198ce9d86132a69fde39764f5eae01c6a526

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.02680 · arxiv_version: 1611.02680v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.02680 · pith_short_12: HZHGWCSQX3ER · pith_short_16: HZHGWCSQX3ERLCHU · pith_short_8: HZHGWCSQ

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/HZHGWCSQX3ERLCHUWEMBBWAZRT \
  | 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: 3e4e6b0a50bec91588f4b11810d8198ce9d86132a69fde39764f5eae01c6a526

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a6098640c301983db936b64e5870f9f635da3a490b3ec4284f1f1ebf104a0abd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-08T20:29:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9c5e10f71f3fdb4db83c87785bfdd3751fc9b8b9e0579a6db49d0058bc126907"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.02680",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}