Pith Number

pith:IG4WYHN3

pith:2015:IG4WYHN3JMO32PENR4ASGOJZMX

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Three-step implementation of any nxn unitary with a complete graph of n qubits

Amara Katabarwa, Michael R. Geller

arxiv:1509.04621 v1 · 2015-09-15 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IG4WYHN3JMO32PENR4ASGOJZMX}

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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	2026-05-18T01:31:30.786912Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

41b96c1dbb4b1dbd3c8d8f0123393965fb7516626cd61a32a19229caec82d7cd

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.04621 · arxiv_version: 1509.04621v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.04621 · pith_short_12: IG4WYHN3JMO3 · pith_short_16: IG4WYHN3JMO32PEN · pith_short_8: IG4WYHN3

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/IG4WYHN3JMO32PENR4ASGOJZMX \
  | 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: 41b96c1dbb4b1dbd3c8d8f0123393965fb7516626cd61a32a19229caec82d7cd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9b8890224f6a7a530e52893d602b11545e8159ed871b2090d2c9774e26541bd5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-09-15T16:09:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bad1cc08ab270197173be242094621e3c667391e82a89cc98d6e597bcec8da7f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.04621",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}