Pith Number

pith:LB6URPOM

pith:2018:LB6URPOMKTAT7Z2V3MOSVCW2O7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A compressed classical description of quantum states

David Gosset, John Smolin

arxiv:1801.05721 v2 · 2018-01-17 · quant-ph · cs.CC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LB6URPOMKTAT7Z2V3MOSVCW2O7}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-17T23:42:03.291418Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

587d48bdcc54c13fe755db1d2a8ada77e34963ae6d6ca3bb5af951d553c7bf28

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.05721 · arxiv_version: 1801.05721v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.05721 · pith_short_12: LB6URPOMKTAT · pith_short_16: LB6URPOMKTAT7Z2V · pith_short_8: LB6URPOM

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/LB6URPOMKTAT7Z2V3MOSVCW2O7 \
  | 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: 587d48bdcc54c13fe755db1d2a8ada77e34963ae6d6ca3bb5af951d553c7bf28

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4467ce4af992f9c27c8c8750a047b8222da8070ca8b4c3e08791ff2f0c6a4d20",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-17T15:54:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "39dcdfb75c6052e822628b55a94eac1d5e8543b9463c8b9b757eb7a29680bc11"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.05721",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}