Pith Number

pith:J7F6WOTY

pith:2008:J7F6WOTYVTHC5SYG2BWUFTEFAZ

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A new description of orthogonal bases

Bob Coecke, Dusko Pavlovic, Jamie Vicary

arxiv:0810.0812 v1 · 2008-10-05 · quant-ph · math.LO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J7F6WOTYVTHC5SYG2BWUFTEFAZ}

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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	2026-05-18T03:37:42.139863Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4fcbeb3a78acce2ecb06d06d42cc850666c863d0a0127949bd37fb38b038baf8

Aliases

arxiv: 0810.0812 · arxiv_version: 0810.0812v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0810.0812 · pith_short_12: J7F6WOTYVTHC · pith_short_16: J7F6WOTYVTHC5SYG · pith_short_8: J7F6WOTY

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/J7F6WOTYVTHC5SYG2BWUFTEFAZ \
  | 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: 4fcbeb3a78acce2ecb06d06d42cc850666c863d0a0127949bd37fb38b038baf8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3c1ae480373bb91e0da7820298daac012547453e5389fbf2b944bfd2ea66e498",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.LO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-10-05T09:37:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "31ab71f04b56a924a56aec614b80160d107a4a1e0cc63083bf38dd370a3347b3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0810.0812",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}