Pith Number

pith:MIRLO54U

pith:2016:MIRLO54U6QWXOVHH3B4HAN7WBY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum key distribution protocol based on contextuality monogamy

Arvind, Jaskaran Singh, Kishor Bharti

arxiv:1612.02616 v3 · 2016-12-08 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MIRLO54U6QWXOVHH3B4HAN7WBY}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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	2026-05-18T00:41:07.657577Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6222b77794f42d7754e7d8787037f60e307b88a1225e5bbbe611624d7ae75ab2

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.02616 · arxiv_version: 1612.02616v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.02616 · pith_short_12: MIRLO54U6QWX · pith_short_16: MIRLO54U6QWXOVHH · pith_short_8: MIRLO54U

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/MIRLO54U6QWXOVHH3B4HAN7WBY \
  | 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: 6222b77794f42d7754e7d8787037f60e307b88a1225e5bbbe611624d7ae75ab2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8da2351e53650824633e3364c793ddbd13552571c96a96fe300f974770089140",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-08T12:21:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8baf63d1f8997ed162431915a3988c666d15b43dcfc9dea5cdeed1f92b38282c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.02616",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}