Pith Number

pith:NP4Q6SGU

pith:2012:NP4Q6SGU2QDLWGJZT6WARJZATB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fault-Tolerant Exact State Transmission

Bin Shao, Lian-Ao Wu, Michele Modugno, Wang Yao, Zhao-Ming Wang

arxiv:1205.0462 v1 · 2012-05-02 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NP4Q6SGU2QDLWGJZT6WARJZATB}

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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	2026-05-18T03:08:14.645529Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6bf90f48d4d406bb19399fac08a7209866cb14e5353861e1befdef0037d2cd2a

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.0462 · arxiv_version: 1205.0462v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.0462 · pith_short_12: NP4Q6SGU2QDL · pith_short_16: NP4Q6SGU2QDLWGJZ · pith_short_8: NP4Q6SGU

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/NP4Q6SGU2QDLWGJZT6WARJZATB \
  | 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: 6bf90f48d4d406bb19399fac08a7209866cb14e5353861e1befdef0037d2cd2a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "641277e4e4f40141c94e2e996eeb375acc6ca5b68896f72bca7f07715c0a4000",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-02T15:25:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3bbe1399325fd18ddd26bd97f5e5b2d6416b40cc1864c5c2025c610dcb0f2668"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.0462",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}