Pith Number

pith:KXE55ZSX

pith:2013:KXE55ZSX4SEZUUODEQ2RMVOKUE

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Misconception in Theory of Quantum Key Distribution -Reply to Renner-

Osamu Hirota

arxiv:1306.1277 v1 · 2013-06-06 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KXE55ZSX4SEZUUODEQ2RMVOKUE}

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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	2026-05-18T03:21:42.812195Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

55c9dee657e4899a51c324351655caa10d6819f4b87ee317fe5b2d04015d70e1

Aliases

arxiv: 1306.1277 · arxiv_version: 1306.1277v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1306.1277 · pith_short_12: KXE55ZSX4SEZ · pith_short_16: KXE55ZSX4SEZUUOD · pith_short_8: KXE55ZSX

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/KXE55ZSX4SEZUUODEQ2RMVOKUE \
  | 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: 55c9dee657e4899a51c324351655caa10d6819f4b87ee317fe5b2d04015d70e1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "32c6524f3f97860a5418af6f8ea5fe7978f6e713b070108c06ad91346158720c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-06-06T01:20:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e2ff47d6e6faf2daaaf35741f24a22b76d48e1fac94c06225dc13b1225737112"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1306.1277",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}