Pith Number

pith:J54ARCEF

pith:2009:J54ARCEFEZQVERBFP4VHQPCWBI

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Classical Processing Requirements for a Topological Quantum Computing System

Austin G. Fowler, Kae Nemoto, Simon J. Devitt, Todd Tilma, W. J. Munro

arxiv:0906.0415 v2 · 2009-06-02 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J54ARCEFEZQVERBFP4VHQPCWBI}

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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	2026-05-18T00:46:08.639769Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4f7808888526615244257f2a783c560a39decfa43dabf7307cbff4508861eb1b

Aliases

arxiv: 0906.0415 · arxiv_version: 0906.0415v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0906.0415 · pith_short_12: J54ARCEFEZQV · pith_short_16: J54ARCEFEZQVERBF · pith_short_8: J54ARCEF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/J54ARCEFEZQVERBFP4VHQPCWBI \
  | 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: 4f7808888526615244257f2a783c560a39decfa43dabf7307cbff4508861eb1b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1105027fab10a154f3e54fc11304cac41827004deb743ccbd2013557a12ce605",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2009-06-02T03:50:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a206901b480a0e45c589e45c9605d99fc6b864f8623b536265c5cf4271cc686e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0906.0415",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}