Pith Number

pith:OWERLKKE

pith:1998:OWERLKKERWVFOHVAV2HO6HJ44A

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Tools for Quantum Algorithms

Carlos Mochon, Eleanor Rieffel, Tad Hogg, Wolfgang Polak

arxiv:quant-ph/9811073 v2 · 1998-11-25 · 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{OWERLKKERWVFOHVAV2HO6HJ44A}

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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	2026-05-18T02:35:06.592979Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

758915a9448daa571ea0ae8eef1d3ce02a25d7309f3feb77b3d680a76a5720ce

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9811073 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9811073v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9811073 · pith_short_12: OWERLKKERWVF · pith_short_16: OWERLKKERWVFOHVA · pith_short_8: OWERLKKE

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/OWERLKKERWVFOHVAV2HO6HJ44A \
  | 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: 758915a9448daa571ea0ae8eef1d3ce02a25d7309f3feb77b3d680a76a5720ce

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f6ee3fd47d613ad0aebf9dac4416af441972341a31c3ef09e460381a16905474",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-11-25T18:34:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1a87a3bc09ee24d0a8b5061f8dbd51610eab72122136a0ef03a0f17e26b7edf0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9811073",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}