Pith Number

pith:M222RJM5

pith:2001:M222RJM5MHB7NUGT3Y47FBTKJ7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum Kolmogorov Complexity Based on Classical Descriptions

Paul M.B. Vitanyi

arxiv:quant-ph/0102108 v2 · 2001-02-21 · quant-ph · cs.CC · cs.IT · math.IT · math.LO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M222RJM5MHB7NUGT3Y47FBTKJ7}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:58:04.922344Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

66b5a8a59d61c3f6d0d3de39f2866a4fe1dd6589f06ac5246a20c55133fda671

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0102108 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0102108v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0102108 · pith_short_12: M222RJM5MHB7 · pith_short_16: M222RJM5MHB7NUGT · pith_short_8: M222RJM5

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/M222RJM5MHB7NUGT3Y47FBTKJ7 \
  | 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: 66b5a8a59d61c3f6d0d3de39f2866a4fe1dd6589f06ac5246a20c55133fda671

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6601895c4ae48d5d78d62afc56801694b91a0fea71856ab899a35f24085e3a67",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC",
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "math.LO"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2001-02-21T16:58:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b2c42cd0c4833dfb94842e9be99d0c06fac4d14873d38456b3b6f87421a71e3c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0102108",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}