Pith Number

pith:KHELSRQL

pith:2003:KHELSRQLJOFXA44MJVWC2EQTDG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Superselection rules and quantum protocols

Alexei Kitaev, Dominic Mayers, John Preskill

arxiv:quant-ph/0310088 v2 · 2003-10-13 · quant-ph · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KHELSRQLJOFXA44MJVWC2EQTDG}

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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	2026-07-04T16:42:38.587905Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

51c8b9460b4b8b70738c4d6c2d1213198dca5230de8b8be758517f11bb140423

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0310088 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0310088v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0310088 · pith_short_12: KHELSRQLJOFX · pith_short_16: KHELSRQLJOFXA44M · pith_short_8: KHELSRQL

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/KHELSRQLJOFXA44MJVWC2EQTDG \
  | 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: 51c8b9460b4b8b70738c4d6c2d1213198dca5230de8b8be758517f11bb140423

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "66ca82a2f2d6030fe9a4a5345913dff41031b92b347f1d1b5c510f05e55dcb0b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-10-13T20:21:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "42bc1adb1d40ac398a91d1215491548cafebff23d7623d79a1bcbe18b85b4801"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0310088",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}