Pith Number

pith:JMNC3KPH

pith:2012:JMNC3KPHZQQTPCUJVPEK6BM7LS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Direct characterization of linear-optical networks

Alessandro Fedrizzi, Andrew G. White, Matthew A. Broome, Robert Fickler, Saleh Rahimi-Keshari, Timothy C. Ralph

arxiv:1210.6463 v3 · 2012-10-24 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JMNC3KPHZQQTPCUJVPEK6BM7LS}

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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	2026-05-18T03:22:08.031401Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4b1a2da9e7cc21378a89abc8af059f5cbe50f8d39321bb6f62c3cf9bec66f9ae

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.6463 · arxiv_version: 1210.6463v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.6463 · pith_short_12: JMNC3KPHZQQT · pith_short_16: JMNC3KPHZQQTPCUJ · pith_short_8: JMNC3KPH

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JMNC3KPHZQQTPCUJVPEK6BM7LS \
  | 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: 4b1a2da9e7cc21378a89abc8af059f5cbe50f8d39321bb6f62c3cf9bec66f9ae

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b7a9ebb1644099df8b7d2970228a85de676e4290211ba501542fd57eb7096571",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-24T08:56:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1e762de84316808182097533042cd8e767498aa308c93990b7c3e24bc402393c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.6463",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}