Pith Number

pith:M3RLFQ35

pith:2012:M3RLFQ355WENT2CNJDSJ3YOO4F

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Adversary Lower Bound for Element Distinctness

Aleksandrs Belovs

arxiv:1204.5074 v1 · 2012-04-23 · quant-ph · cs.CC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M3RLFQ355WENT2CNJDSJ3YOO4F}

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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	2026-05-18T03:57:14.817991Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

66e2b2c37ded88d9e84d48e49de1cee14c5341b2786ff84afecc6ac99f750177

Aliases

arxiv: 1204.5074 · arxiv_version: 1204.5074v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.5074 · pith_short_12: M3RLFQ355WEN · pith_short_16: M3RLFQ355WENT2CN · pith_short_8: M3RLFQ35

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/M3RLFQ355WENT2CNJDSJ3YOO4F \
  | 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: 66e2b2c37ded88d9e84d48e49de1cee14c5341b2786ff84afecc6ac99f750177

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dfc746e135141d024932a301182a2b5887615899a915ff5b69088944f97de2f3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-04-23T14:18:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2781b29ccb80cf7dc7cab59e6dbb39c8a8113fbc38316b5345d9eafdb9cecc6e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1204.5074",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}