Pith Number

pith:L5H6BQHN

pith:2017:L5H6BQHNMDQNO42AZVMAFLAC25

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

One-shot coherence distillation

Bartosz Regula, Gerardo Adesso, Kun Fang, Xin Wang

arxiv:1711.10512 v3 · 2017-11-28 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L5H6BQHNMDQNO42AZVMAFLAC25}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T00:11:32.373373Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5f4fe0c0ed60e0d77340cd5802ac02d75888d7122424eb0b22d17f6f0bbddbf2

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.10512 · arxiv_version: 1711.10512v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.10512 · pith_short_12: L5H6BQHNMDQN · pith_short_16: L5H6BQHNMDQNO42A · pith_short_8: L5H6BQHN

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/L5H6BQHNMDQNO42AZVMAFLAC25 \
  | 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: 5f4fe0c0ed60e0d77340cd5802ac02d75888d7122424eb0b22d17f6f0bbddbf2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7751e009f2d212ad6cfc4ac4fb2b1ebbcda11fe5ef970ab6ed3d0c8ef4e1eb5c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-28T19:03:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cb207755e58fe0f4e5ef0673e680e4980e005a55842ed4cc9da81c27ac3e7b69"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.10512",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}