Pith Number

pith:JEJ5N5QV

pith:2019:JEJ5N5QVPZZ2THEMK5TOH22TEB

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Efficient simulation of random states and random unitaries

Alexander Russell, Christian Majenz, Gorjan Alagic

arxiv:1910.05729 v1 · 2019-10-13 · quant-ph · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JEJ5N5QVPZZ2THEMK5TOH22TEB}

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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	2026-07-05T01:10:28.966106Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4913d6f6157e73a99c8c5766e3eb53206848509057eb779cf7d32d4c6aae50a2

Aliases

arxiv: 1910.05729 · arxiv_version: 1910.05729v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1910.05729 · pith_short_12: JEJ5N5QVPZZ2 · pith_short_16: JEJ5N5QVPZZ2THEM · pith_short_8: JEJ5N5QV

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/JEJ5N5QVPZZ2THEMK5TOH22TEB \
  | 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: 4913d6f6157e73a99c8c5766e3eb53206848509057eb779cf7d32d4c6aae50a2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0e9412e4c1df39127115ad64b4783de2a33fa51be749379adbf709c568f3b205",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2019-10-13T10:57:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "97f2a930396c86dbfb2122389b0a9bbd8dbcc542059a6164477cccffb4566832"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1910.05729",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}