Pith Number

pith:KPTLGE3A

pith:2016:KPTLGE3AWA3TVDAIW4M2W36Y6K

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Long-distance quantum key distribution using concatenated entanglement swapping with practical resources

Aeysha Khalique, Barry C. Sanders

arxiv:1610.04828 v1 · 2016-10-16 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KPTLGE3AWA3TVDAIW4M2W36Y6K}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:47:09.760419Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

53e6b31360b0373a8c08b719ab6fd8f2904c736d666767acea2562428e782d08

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.04828 · arxiv_version: 1610.04828v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.04828 · pith_short_12: KPTLGE3AWA3T · pith_short_16: KPTLGE3AWA3TVDAI · pith_short_8: KPTLGE3A

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/KPTLGE3AWA3TVDAIW4M2W36Y6K \
  | 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: 53e6b31360b0373a8c08b719ab6fd8f2904c736d666767acea2562428e782d08

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f8bb97db642a426e7465873d51762b44242c2f09b36d250a3dc41506e6c75473",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-16T08:11:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b25dbfeb6b27025dcad17e123991042c4fbf75ba0af9e19bb1b75141fba86c27"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.04828",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}