Pith Number

pith:J5OJWUCD

pith:2013:J5OJWUCDUDKXGM5C6DOO74RXNU

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A simple decoder for topological codes

James R. Wootton

arxiv:1310.2393 v4 · 2013-10-09 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J5OJWUCDUDKXGM5C6DOO74RXNU}

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:19:16.940415Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4f5c9b5043a0d57333a2f0dceff2376d2f5771fec800bef415e13c8b09e5d968

Aliases

arxiv: 1310.2393 · arxiv_version: 1310.2393v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1310.2393 · pith_short_12: J5OJWUCDUDKX · pith_short_16: J5OJWUCDUDKXGM5C · pith_short_8: J5OJWUCD

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/J5OJWUCDUDKXGM5C6DOO74RXNU \
  | 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: 4f5c9b5043a0d57333a2f0dceff2376d2f5771fec800bef415e13c8b09e5d968

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3dee59fd0323d4b6b84a3b96f0892b3ceeeb191a1e637d666010102c816fb6e4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-10-09T08:41:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6f006e21573fcf2dc467715ce4755771059836adbd4e61f36eacd56836675da5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1310.2393",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}