Pith Number

pith:M4LVL2KI

pith:2013:M4LVL2KI6RH3PNC3QEJVSI2NGK

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Certifying the dimension of classical and quantum systems in a prepare-and-measure scenario with independent devices

Joseph Bowles, Marco Tulio Quintino, Nicolas Brunner

arxiv:1311.1525 v3 · 2013-11-06 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M4LVL2KI6RH3PNC3QEJVSI2NGK}

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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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First computed	2026-05-18T00:21:51.734151Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

671755e948f44fb7b45b811359234d32a752a0f428223169526d731d11a34ea6

Aliases

arxiv: 1311.1525 · arxiv_version: 1311.1525v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1311.1525 · pith_short_12: M4LVL2KI6RH3 · pith_short_16: M4LVL2KI6RH3PNC3 · pith_short_8: M4LVL2KI

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/M4LVL2KI6RH3PNC3QEJVSI2NGK \
  | 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: 671755e948f44fb7b45b811359234d32a752a0f428223169526d731d11a34ea6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b9308799cc7a21d7087c29680162b9dfab1798491b37d22aee5044f85a310f2c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-11-06T21:17:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3bcf955cda00310a19218039b1a0c30dc3639e7e5cf2f30def6847e012bbd57c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1311.1525",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}