Pith Number

pith:IU7XZVYZ

pith:2025:IU7XZVYZRCBRPWUVL3X3H3PR5D

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Erasing, Converting, and Communicating: The Power of Resource-Nongenerating Operations

Xian Shi

arxiv:2509.12604 v2 · 2025-09-16 · 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{IU7XZVYZRCBRPWUVL3X3H3PR5D}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-06-02T01:04:14.993581Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

453f7cd719888317da955eefb3edf1e8f45f11c796d66a4ce74600dadd969bd5

Aliases

arxiv: 2509.12604 · arxiv_version: 2509.12604v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.12604 · pith_short_12: IU7XZVYZRCBR · pith_short_16: IU7XZVYZRCBRPWUV · pith_short_8: IU7XZVYZ

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/IU7XZVYZRCBRPWUVL3X3H3PR5D \
  | 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: 453f7cd719888317da955eefb3edf1e8f45f11c796d66a4ce74600dadd969bd5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "155b9d3280fa2217b040bef89849dcf4b905dd91f83318feebe31c7db151bca4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2025-09-16T03:00:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a1abb506497cea550ef9e419a6499565426d4a006c5a52d68d568cbc05bad120"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2509.12604",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}