Pith Number

pith:LHT5XMXB

pith:2017:LHT5XMXBW4XFMH5XU7QJMVMQSH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Optimal resource states for local state discrimination

Michael Nathanson, Saronath Halder, Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay

arxiv:1709.10302 v2 · 2017-09-29 · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LHT5XMXBW4XFMH5XU7QJMVMQSH}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:22:58.494954Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

59e7dbb2e1b72e561fb7a7e096559091e34910f52a16108089055c3b4bd5fe0c

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.10302 · arxiv_version: 1709.10302v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.10302 · pith_short_12: LHT5XMXBW4XF · pith_short_16: LHT5XMXBW4XFMH5X · pith_short_8: LHT5XMXB

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/LHT5XMXBW4XFMH5XU7QJMVMQSH \
  | 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: 59e7dbb2e1b72e561fb7a7e096559091e34910f52a16108089055c3b4bd5fe0c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1a756dec1a7bd2438ba3a0e1766cff3844b454ca30b93bfe3dc8e114d97cc77d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-29T09:41:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8d2f4b3a6bef771bbfff8845adfc45b96143c1010f835407cfbe07dbddde3b84"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.10302",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}