Pith Number

pith:LPJSWRPU

pith:1996:LPJSWRPU5UQKSKPUHHENL5AAMJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Unconditionally secure quantum bit commitment is impossible

Dominic Mayers (Princeton University)

arxiv:quant-ph/9605044 v2 · 1996-05-30 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{LPJSWRPU5UQKSKPUHHENL5AAMJ}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Optimal fidelity estimation when one state is pure via algorithmic Uhlmann transform

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T16:02:40.074774Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5bd32b45f4ed20a929f439c8d5f4006271e16a501544b549eac4ce6058df2370

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9605044 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9605044v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9605044 · pith_short_12: LPJSWRPU5UQK · pith_short_16: LPJSWRPU5UQKSKPU · pith_short_8: LPJSWRPU

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/LPJSWRPU5UQKSKPUHHENL5AAMJ \
  | 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: 5bd32b45f4ed20a929f439c8d5f4006271e16a501544b549eac4ce6058df2370

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "85f066b72bb2bff4839fc44034dc0176740e89a6fb52224982683afd2b091820",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-05-30T20:43:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1275f4c185ad7f46817463424c3363d766371df7d8bcfd5296fda556903abccd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9605044",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}