Pith Number

pith:N7Y5WKCL

pith:2018:N7Y5WKCL2VA7Y7MKKPWD4IFXNW

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Efficient unitary paths and quantum computational supremacy: A proof of average-case hardness of Random Circuit Sampling

Ramis Movassagh

arxiv:1810.04681 v1 · 2018-10-10 · quant-ph · cond-mat.str-el · hep-th · math-ph · math.MP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{N7Y5WKCL2VA7Y7MKKPWD4IFXNW}

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4 Citations open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:03:36.181000Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6ff1db284bd541fc7d8a53ec3e20b76d8717c241e96efa5f54794c66de2a4dde

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.04681 · arxiv_version: 1810.04681v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.04681 · pith_short_12: N7Y5WKCL2VA7 · pith_short_16: N7Y5WKCL2VA7Y7MK · pith_short_8: N7Y5WKCL

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/N7Y5WKCL2VA7Y7MKKPWD4IFXNW \
  | 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: 6ff1db284bd541fc7d8a53ec3e20b76d8717c241e96efa5f54794c66de2a4dde

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fce1842684f43d71bd2b7d16ae980d870a79704c5e268aad750c94df31cf0d36",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.str-el",
      "hep-th",
      "math-ph",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-10T18:00:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d2cd45ff5e6d15bd24bec69674af4cdcd37a789124641853c090888f8131eaa9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.04681",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}