Pith Number

pith:NFJ5A3MR

pith:2010:NFJ5A3MR6FB4BQPE6WTAZUBBD4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum query complexity of state conversion

Ben W. Reichardt, Mario Szegedy, Rajat Mittal, Robert Spalek, Troy Lee

arxiv:1011.3020 v2 · 2010-11-12 · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NFJ5A3MR6FB4BQPE6WTAZUBBD4}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T03:53:05.169273Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6953d06d91f143c0c1e4f5a60cd0211f071f009d3d24a5209ac26e4cd71570a7

Aliases

arxiv: 1011.3020 · arxiv_version: 1011.3020v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1011.3020 · pith_short_12: NFJ5A3MR6FB4 · pith_short_16: NFJ5A3MR6FB4BQPE · pith_short_8: NFJ5A3MR

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/NFJ5A3MR6FB4BQPE6WTAZUBBD4 \
  | 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: 6953d06d91f143c0c1e4f5a60cd0211f071f009d3d24a5209ac26e4cd71570a7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d0292e346ce2a514ddcaa63224cd8e7c5c1b2a6f801f403f9599d31bb6d6f348",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-11-12T20:00:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f2cd6b63de81d1f4f8cf9da34380acf6859bed431a7e8c072a5d4a8d181e8191"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1011.3020",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}