Pith Number

pith:NFV5ASVZ

pith:2014:NFV5ASVZ6JJZ2NK6JBJEQIQILE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Boson Sampling is Robust to Small Errors in the Network Matrix

Alex Arkhipov

arxiv:1412.2516 v1 · 2014-12-08 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NFV5ASVZ6JJZ2NK6JBJEQIQILE}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:23:58.727660Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

696bd04ab9f2539d355e48524822085915281d1b5da53d306fb98298dce5ec66

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.2516 · arxiv_version: 1412.2516v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.2516 · pith_short_12: NFV5ASVZ6JJZ · pith_short_16: NFV5ASVZ6JJZ2NK6 · pith_short_8: NFV5ASVZ

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/NFV5ASVZ6JJZ2NK6JBJEQIQILE \
  | 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: 696bd04ab9f2539d355e48524822085915281d1b5da53d306fb98298dce5ec66

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2db861744c447b9cd1d271cab551e594ebcbf1a7ef476b3a36a6837d87c21963",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-08T11:20:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f879f62dd04e5ad85bc27f925d2326184fef78614a2f49eff03c7cc0d59ace1c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.2516",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}