Pith Number

pith:M4IVYRGW

pith:2018:M4IVYRGWNUV4HUJNRCZXYKXJUO

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A New Quantum Operator for Distance

Daniel Katz

arxiv:1804.10555 v3 · 2018-04-27 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M4IVYRGWNUV4HUJNRCZXYKXJUO}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-17T23:52:24.438177Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

67115c44d66d2bc3d12d88b37c2ae9a3a3f8a1925484540209b55cce46456c06

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.10555 · arxiv_version: 1804.10555v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.10555 · pith_short_12: M4IVYRGWNUV4 · pith_short_16: M4IVYRGWNUV4HUJN · pith_short_8: M4IVYRGW

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/M4IVYRGWNUV4HUJNRCZXYKXJUO \
  | 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: 67115c44d66d2bc3d12d88b37c2ae9a3a3f8a1925484540209b55cce46456c06

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "90b038b6d3d1297753fdafb5de1a48ca732cb3644e1a7b59bb7b93ea3322a27a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-27T15:20:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6bdcebeb53e27b3f4d6a4b1417ff8ae3e870ab120861fc7edb6461ee3d6934c6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.10555",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}