Pith Number

pith:OX5MVDVS

pith:2014:OX5MVDVSKGWQO7HBVOEXOCL6XD

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Upper bounds on quantum query complexity inspired by the Elitzur-Vaidman bomb tester

Cedric Yen-Yu Lin, Han-Hsuan Lin

arxiv:1410.0932 v2 · 2014-10-03 · quant-ph · cs.CC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OX5MVDVSKGWQO7HBVOEXOCL6XD}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:32:38.321774Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

75faca8eb251ad077ce1ab8977097eb8fbe8faa4776913b475fa59eb1c0b3a06

Aliases

arxiv: 1410.0932 · arxiv_version: 1410.0932v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1410.0932 · pith_short_12: OX5MVDVSKGWQ · pith_short_16: OX5MVDVSKGWQO7HB · pith_short_8: OX5MVDVS

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/OX5MVDVSKGWQO7HBVOEXOCL6XD \
  | 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: 75faca8eb251ad077ce1ab8977097eb8fbe8faa4776913b475fa59eb1c0b3a06

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e80c75f8fa56930133724119c573d1062c389f638490398e219e9eb6efbd9e0c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-10-03T18:14:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f6d785a588831f8c1ee6b1443f333153131dfeefa9a7f9455c0b8468b1018198"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1410.0932",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}