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pith:MDV3IQNV

pith:2018:MDV3IQNVDPWGIYEIYPYGJCKJRS

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On Finding Quantum Multi-collisions

Mark Zhandry, Qipeng Liu

arxiv:1811.05385 v2 · 2018-11-13 · cs.CR · cs.CC · quant-ph

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:52:33.613214Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

60ebb441b51bec646088c3f06489498c840ba2fd809f47e08e3a67dccbe2d984

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.05385 · arxiv_version: 1811.05385v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.05385 · pith_short_12: MDV3IQNVDPWG · pith_short_16: MDV3IQNVDPWGIYEI · pith_short_8: MDV3IQNV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MDV3IQNVDPWGIYEIYPYGJCKJRS \
  | 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: 60ebb441b51bec646088c3f06489498c840ba2fd809f47e08e3a67dccbe2d984

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-13T16:22:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "853d1bbe54c9eace50c7b95527c550183f790ccd9ffee28ca512ddd51dc80987"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}