Pith Number

pith:KSWJIQ43

pith:2001:KSWJIQ43F2CYW44A2GLOCXN4II

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Quantum Computing and the Jones Polynomial

Louis H. Kauffman

arxiv:math/0105255 v1 · 2001-05-31 · math.QA · math-ph · math.MP · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KSWJIQ43F2CYW44A2GLOCXN4II}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-04T14:59:47.104961Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

54ac94439b2e858b7380d196e15dbc42398b9cff0eacc7f894ec15c98177f281

Aliases

arxiv: math/0105255 · arxiv_version: math/0105255v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.math/0105255 · pith_short_12: KSWJIQ43F2CY · pith_short_16: KSWJIQ43F2CYW44A · pith_short_8: KSWJIQ43

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/KSWJIQ43F2CYW44A2GLOCXN4II \
  | 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: 54ac94439b2e858b7380d196e15dbc42398b9cff0eacc7f894ec15c98177f281

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a9bff4d040c9e0047f41803d4c40838afd3086ece73d652e36c68d5b49bfe73f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math-ph",
      "math.MP",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "math.QA",
    "submitted_at": "2001-05-31T16:32:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d744ec86363356c1dbb5045548894dda50ef152d6f9dcb907999c0768e8e9514"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "math/0105255",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}