Pith Number

pith:KNGE5JRS

pith:2017:KNGE5JRSXV2R2M566HORWBU2QB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Simple factorization of unitary transformations

Hubert de Guise, Luis L. Sanchez-Soto, Olivia Di Matteo

arxiv:1708.00735 v2 · 2017-08-02 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KNGE5JRSXV2R2M566HORWBU2QB}

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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	2026-05-18T00:21:56.932224Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

534c4ea632bd751d33bef1dd1b069a8075fc88ac653404059c45ac582bf69729

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.00735 · arxiv_version: 1708.00735v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.00735 · pith_short_12: KNGE5JRSXV2R · pith_short_16: KNGE5JRSXV2R2M56 · pith_short_8: KNGE5JRS

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/KNGE5JRSXV2R2M566HORWBU2QB \
  | 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: 534c4ea632bd751d33bef1dd1b069a8075fc88ac653404059c45ac582bf69729

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3f5cd16dd4aebcdbf7a8ea871701432eff8756556b266d043651a661d0e73a76",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-02T13:14:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4d72dd3940f0dd04f53c8a219903f9a40501d5195acc2cedd833894293a11414"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.00735",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}