Pith Number

pith:MRJPQNOV

pith:1997:MRJPQNOVDATH75YPM3JCA2ZIFJ

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Quantum computers can search rapidly by using almost any transformation

Lov K. Grover (Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ)

arxiv:quant-ph/9712011 v1 · 1997-12-03 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MRJPQNOVDATH75YPM3JCA2ZIFJ}

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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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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T15:36:42.241618Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6452f835d518267ff70f66d2206b282a673b4c599365e7e3a35a28843d1b56c7

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9712011 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9712011v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9712011 · pith_short_12: MRJPQNOVDATH · pith_short_16: MRJPQNOVDATH75YP · pith_short_8: MRJPQNOV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MRJPQNOVDATH75YPM3JCA2ZIFJ \
  | 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: 6452f835d518267ff70f66d2206b282a673b4c599365e7e3a35a28843d1b56c7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ab68411d679bbb71279d42c919de29e68f58a15e26f7ad9e616d3f881fee0947",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-12-03T22:06:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "47531a8e32c88ac1022d7b6c95ba440d3c926c8fca359d42c8a7a6d3bf8ef784"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9712011",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}