Pith Number

pith:IHS3KMH7

pith:2016:IHS3KMH7Z7DIISHXTPCUQWQHIG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Resource Destroying Maps

Seth Lloyd, Xueyuan Hu, Zi-Wen Liu

arxiv:1606.03723 v4 · 2016-06-12 · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IHS3KMH7Z7DIISHXTPCUQWQHIG}

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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	2026-05-18T00:50:42.756984Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

41e5b530ffcfc68448f79bc5485a0741a12f7d947fe86cc6d615348560cd6733

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.03723 · arxiv_version: 1606.03723v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.03723 · pith_short_12: IHS3KMH7Z7DI · pith_short_16: IHS3KMH7Z7DIISHX · pith_short_8: IHS3KMH7

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/IHS3KMH7Z7DIISHXTPCUQWQHIG \
  | 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: 41e5b530ffcfc68448f79bc5485a0741a12f7d947fe86cc6d615348560cd6733

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "12d9b3bb8ce6d0fd36cbc4a9956eecadb45d6f10cc3dd25989889b4128cab4c7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-12T15:00:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bdf016be392525b39451fc516f940461eafb70d22d1598fe4dd4625bf5c40279"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.03723",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}