Pith Number

pith:IIPIXWK3

pith:2017:IIPIXWK3F3UPQGPJS6MRXRL6JD

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Units of rotational information

Giulio Chiribella, Qinheping Hu, Yuxiang Yang

arxiv:1707.05631 v3 · 2017-07-18 · 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{IIPIXWK3F3UPQGPJS6MRXRL6JD}

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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	2026-05-18T00:29:01.315920Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

421e8bd95b2ee8f819e997991bc57e48f49f44f2853f18bbf75450e735334c0f

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.05631 · arxiv_version: 1707.05631v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.05631 · pith_short_12: IIPIXWK3F3UP · pith_short_16: IIPIXWK3F3UPQGPJ · pith_short_8: IIPIXWK3

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/IIPIXWK3F3UPQGPJS6MRXRL6JD \
  | 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: 421e8bd95b2ee8f819e997991bc57e48f49f44f2853f18bbf75450e735334c0f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6594a34ad3edd62f7bda21ef8ca29e8ad01f9b195382965b7461bc9cdf56e5a0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-18T14:15:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c7038f948305def88b2cf9a9875229ccb6fd9f544fe1ded54921fd22f3ece186"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.05631",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}