Pith Number

pith:IMUYMDYV

pith:2009:IMUYMDYVXYESE2UUPVARZFIUM4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Non-Poissonian statistics from Poissonian light sources with application to passive decoy state quantum key distribution

Marcos Curty, Norbert L\"utkenhaus, Tobias Moroder, Xiongfeng Ma

arxiv:0909.5519 v1 · 2009-09-30 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IMUYMDYVXYESE2UUPVARZFIUM4}

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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	2026-05-18T02:11:36.136760Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4329860f15be09226a947d411c95146701d9405b09ee944cda8ba64fa7c98435

Aliases

arxiv: 0909.5519 · arxiv_version: 0909.5519v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0909.5519 · pith_short_12: IMUYMDYVXYES · pith_short_16: IMUYMDYVXYESE2UU · pith_short_8: IMUYMDYV

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/IMUYMDYVXYESE2UUPVARZFIUM4 \
  | 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: 4329860f15be09226a947d411c95146701d9405b09ee944cda8ba64fa7c98435

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f045a5f65a9c098a643a141f360b969193aeb3e2572ca173a5eba4e67799f9d4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2009-09-30T06:19:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b9ff28e0155e02c6c02f59f4a6811a2ff0de3abe0e066106dc8e6479984fd2f6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0909.5519",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}