Pith Number

pith:ICAT6XZK

pith:2018:ICAT6XZKSQL4YSMGUWNROYGTCY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Pretty good state transfer via adaptive quantum error correction

Akshaya Jayashankar, Prabha Mandayam

arxiv:1807.04062 v2 · 2018-07-11 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ICAT6XZKSQL4YSMGUWNROYGTCY}

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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	2026-05-18T00:00:52.261645Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

40813f5f2a9417cc4986a59b1760d3160e8b6bef788765153225b16c6cea964e

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.04062 · arxiv_version: 1807.04062v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.04062 · pith_short_12: ICAT6XZKSQL4 · pith_short_16: ICAT6XZKSQL4YSMG · pith_short_8: ICAT6XZK

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/ICAT6XZKSQL4YSMGUWNROYGTCY \
  | 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: 40813f5f2a9417cc4986a59b1760d3160e8b6bef788765153225b16c6cea964e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2114fa2d9fcc65f38cceaab5efa89912c6406b1fb698a21505ea1372e0cfd821",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-11T10:51:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ae9c0e8d890a54d837fde9b1d7aa35482946a91db13d1ae03c0fb115eac4a388"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.04062",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}