Pith Number

pith:JFWDAN2U

pith:2016:JFWDAN2U7VD6NRF3QSXZJUVTLF

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Expected communication cost of distributed quantum tasks

Ankit Garg, Anurag Anshu, Aram Harrow, Penghui Yao

arxiv:1605.04601 v3 · 2016-05-15 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JFWDAN2U7VD6NRF3QSXZJUVTLF}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T00:02:45.985323Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

496c303754fd47e6c4bb84af94d2b35978d3b51fc69f8a38ffb450281c19aad7

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.04601 · arxiv_version: 1605.04601v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.04601 · pith_short_12: JFWDAN2U7VD6 · pith_short_16: JFWDAN2U7VD6NRF3 · pith_short_8: JFWDAN2U

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/JFWDAN2U7VD6NRF3QSXZJUVTLF \
  | 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: 496c303754fd47e6c4bb84af94d2b35978d3b51fc69f8a38ffb450281c19aad7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3f770354fcd3d825f3dcb096e1254e9d9c3a0c5161fc9766af20ea84afd919c0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-15T20:03:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cfaf08b5b8594467f9f039633288f68fb7a29df61189322230f286a6247c7abb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1605.04601",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}