Pith Number

pith:MISNFQXV

pith:2012:MISNFQXVMND5XFXMEF57WJPSLQ

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Performance of polar codes for quantum and private classical communication

Mark M. Wilde, Saikat Guha, Zachary Dutton

arxiv:1205.5980 v1 · 2012-05-27 · quant-ph · cs.IT · math.IT

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\pithnumber{MISNFQXVMND5XFXMEF57WJPSLQ}

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:29:27.509558Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6224d2c2f56347db96ec217bfb25f25c0a43306b08f7ae10daa0ad7d0526b280

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.5980 · arxiv_version: 1205.5980v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.5980 · pith_short_12: MISNFQXVMND5 · pith_short_16: MISNFQXVMND5XFXM · pith_short_8: MISNFQXV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MISNFQXVMND5XFXMEF57WJPSLQ \
  | 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: 6224d2c2f56347db96ec217bfb25f25c0a43306b08f7ae10daa0ad7d0526b280

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "926c05976bc8433e534e3e62d1910ada674077c6ecbb579d2d41117a2cc3eb6e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-27T15:54:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "90c0feecca399007fee69881f91fb2cad9c8b92b6777120fe46cf754049d174e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.5980",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}