Pith Number

pith:PAREDM4X

pith:1997:PAREDM4XTE7UF2P2DBGORBJL7O

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Synchronizing Quantum Paths of a Universal Quantum Computer

Yu Shi

arxiv:quant-ph/9705017 v3 · 1997-05-10 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PAREDM4XTE7UF2P2DBGORBJL7O}

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4 Citations open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T15:07:58.077823Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

782241b397993f42e9fa184ce8852bfbb659afa7ae3cf2f15aa981169a4c855b

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9705017 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9705017v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9705017 · pith_short_12: PAREDM4XTE7U · pith_short_16: PAREDM4XTE7UF2P2 · pith_short_8: PAREDM4X

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/PAREDM4XTE7UF2P2DBGORBJL7O \
  | 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: 782241b397993f42e9fa184ce8852bfbb659afa7ae3cf2f15aa981169a4c855b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8d3c4e2ef2b1901cbed8f55e991c9eabdadcc5b88874af49bb3e8fe3a1c64151",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-05-10T18:54:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "238cd652decefdc666af4ef24b61e334e5433ca2820327c5a89558771dc1e0a0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9705017",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}