Pith Number

pith:J4UJ4OAK

pith:2014:J4UJ4OAKOBJDBUOKL2SBAK27NZ

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States that "look the same" with respect to every basis in a mutually unbiased set

Daniel Sussman, Ilya Amburg, Roshan Sharma, William K. Wootters

arxiv:1407.4074 v3 · 2014-07-15 · quant-ph · math-ph · math.MP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J4UJ4OAKOBJDBUOKL2SBAK27NZ}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:42:36.538926Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4f289e380a705230d1ca5ea4102b5f6e797d82db36ad4066a09a6c7ec4c819dc

Aliases

arxiv: 1407.4074 · arxiv_version: 1407.4074v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1407.4074 · pith_short_12: J4UJ4OAKOBJD · pith_short_16: J4UJ4OAKOBJDBUOK · pith_short_8: J4UJ4OAK

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/J4UJ4OAKOBJDBUOKL2SBAK27NZ \
  | 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: 4f289e380a705230d1ca5ea4102b5f6e797d82db36ad4066a09a6c7ec4c819dc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3a13dc221e1218cb2a401646854a0f0124e32d99962d40c5479937b8e6bfb78e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math-ph",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-07-15T18:00:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "418fc32b71cc99a443a65bd59a8615602493e7a05332865d7d52b0fbc35930d6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1407.4074",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}