Pith Number

pith:PESKCMNQ

pith:2014:PESKCMNQNXYCAYWYD7ACAZENE4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Protocol for Counterfactually Transporting an Unknown Qubit

Hatim Salih

arxiv:1404.2200 v4 · 2014-04-08 · 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{PESKCMNQNXYCAYWYD7ACAZENE4}

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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	2026-05-18T01:12:36.599623Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7924a131b06df02062d81fc020648d273f339342c03fc88f3e702cd5f8d23fe7

Aliases

arxiv: 1404.2200 · arxiv_version: 1404.2200v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1404.2200 · pith_short_12: PESKCMNQNXYC · pith_short_16: PESKCMNQNXYCAYWY · pith_short_8: PESKCMNQ

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/PESKCMNQNXYCAYWYD7ACAZENE4 \
  | 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: 7924a131b06df02062d81fc020648d273f339342c03fc88f3e702cd5f8d23fe7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cf3cfd3183fe2b11b5f549b085262eaa5d972a4b9d106bcddffdcc5a5d882830",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-04-08T16:38:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ce9ca0e3589ef9338f36ba66bbf730fc59e38cc9a7dc42561244bf120f74b2f6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1404.2200",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}