Pith Number

pith:IGCO3PFH

pith:2012:IGCO3PFHL3CN43PK2AZDYNE4PR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Power of Reusable Magic States

Jonas T. Anderson

arxiv:1205.0289 v2 · 2012-05-01 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IGCO3PFHL3CN43PK2AZDYNE4PR}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T03:55:02.466330Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4184edbca75ec4de6dead0323c349c7c7b0aa9cbccef24b28e9aa991c8594552

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.0289 · arxiv_version: 1205.0289v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.0289 · pith_short_12: IGCO3PFHL3CN · pith_short_16: IGCO3PFHL3CN43PK · pith_short_8: IGCO3PFH

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/IGCO3PFHL3CN43PK2AZDYNE4PR \
  | 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: 4184edbca75ec4de6dead0323c349c7c7b0aa9cbccef24b28e9aa991c8594552

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "505662e1af69a644cb8b19a8dd282750ad721b5d5d7d5ef6243e1c6f75d867b4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-01T23:47:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2b373664fbd652ce88236b5dcae4f6bc8a6e17186a8c2c8e735e60b16fe97156"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.0289",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}