Pith Number

pith:JL3V3PML

pith:2022:JL3V3PMLLCAFA4CZ2ZFKTZ62P2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Matrix Big Bang on a Quantum Computer

Michael McGuigan, Viti Chandra, Yuan Feng

arxiv:2212.00260 v1 · 2022-12-01 · quant-ph · gr-qc · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JL3V3PMLLCAFA4CZ2ZFKTZ62P2}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-05T05:21:32.402946Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4af75dbd8b5880507059d64aa9e7da7e9e893d13ba53a057413d8223233d4c2f

Aliases

arxiv: 2212.00260 · arxiv_version: 2212.00260v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2212.00260 · pith_short_12: JL3V3PMLLCAF · pith_short_16: JL3V3PMLLCAFA4CZ · pith_short_8: JL3V3PML

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/JL3V3PMLLCAFA4CZ2ZFKTZ62P2 \
  | 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: 4af75dbd8b5880507059d64aa9e7da7e9e893d13ba53a057413d8223233d4c2f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9935650a39b2556428f505ac5150f5041b151deac9d15f1323c35c67d7660e99",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2022-12-01T03:54:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b799739841367152f433fed13f8c1dba51b1f3eacf9f87c43e64fa2045c5f2a3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2212.00260",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}