Pith Number

pith:MVM6VB4T

pith:2017:MVM6VB4TDRC24HQEYI6QZC7MRQ

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The Network Impact of Hijacking a Quantum Repeater

Rodney Van Meter, Shota Nagayama, Takahiko satoh

arxiv:1701.04587 v4 · 2017-01-17 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MVM6VB4TDRC24HQEYI6QZC7MRQ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:07:55.693112Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6559ea87931c45ae1e04c23d0c8bec8c3004adec49cbcad47ca699d3984f1fa4

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.04587 · arxiv_version: 1701.04587v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.04587 · pith_short_12: MVM6VB4TDRC2 · pith_short_16: MVM6VB4TDRC24HQE · pith_short_8: MVM6VB4T

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/MVM6VB4TDRC24HQEYI6QZC7MRQ \
  | 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: 6559ea87931c45ae1e04c23d0c8bec8c3004adec49cbcad47ca699d3984f1fa4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3fc480a7b553f26101fef09a0a7c4a0a7f2462d4bcb0e41d95a2ec263e7bb6ae",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-17T09:24:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fb9dd77eb5dd2b779573de9d33daa3c3799a08672857e4c35a984f42fd9fd7c7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.04587",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}