Pith Number

pith:M33ISPTF

pith:2010:M33ISPTF4XKZHB5LODV3HO6ACE

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Multiple-copy state discrimination: Thinking globally, acting locally

A. C. Doherty, B. L. Higgins, G. J. Pryde, H. M. Wiseman, S. D. Bartlett

arxiv:1012.3525 v2 · 2010-12-16 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M33ISPTF4XKZHB5LODV3HO6ACE}

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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	2026-05-18T02:23:07.085638Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

66f6893e65e5d59387ab70ebb3bbc0112abc2b2b1fb9ec896d959a6dfbaea9b2

Aliases

arxiv: 1012.3525 · arxiv_version: 1012.3525v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1012.3525 · pith_short_12: M33ISPTF4XKZ · pith_short_16: M33ISPTF4XKZHB5L · pith_short_8: M33ISPTF

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/M33ISPTF4XKZHB5LODV3HO6ACE \
  | 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: 66f6893e65e5d59387ab70ebb3bbc0112abc2b2b1fb9ec896d959a6dfbaea9b2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8cc3f8898558865d39d79d06365ae50f18579ad7b51df7ebb0e143b36495a50c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-12-16T07:32:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "07af73ca257bfabd583f35a18062ee1f93e1693fca6d39c36f9cc0089861a7a5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1012.3525",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}