Pith Number

pith:IJSI2GSA

pith:2016:IJSI2GSAZ3ZAKTSK7MBOWUNL32

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Generalized surface codes and packing of logical qubits

David Poulin, Nicolas Delfosse, Pavithran Iyer

arxiv:1606.07116 v1 · 2016-06-22 · quant-ph · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IJSI2GSAZ3ZAKTSK7MBOWUNL32}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:11:58.643818Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

42648d1a40cef2054e4afb02eb51abdeb3953dac091da64f751ff574a3ee5d9e

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.07116 · arxiv_version: 1606.07116v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.07116 · pith_short_12: IJSI2GSAZ3ZA · pith_short_16: IJSI2GSAZ3ZAKTSK · pith_short_8: IJSI2GSA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IJSI2GSAZ3ZAKTSK7MBOWUNL32 \
  | 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: 42648d1a40cef2054e4afb02eb51abdeb3953dac091da64f751ff574a3ee5d9e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e5371abc85e7d7efecae617cab79bc79fdd4073661cc5ffe34c59f29ce6fa2da",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-22T21:24:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "76468e7fe16102672e5bc8ba855a9a9498488655fc868077e296f7cf736c24a6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.07116",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}