Pith Number

pith:PJWLEHXO

pith:2013:PJWLEHXOZ3ZOSFRS7WPT5E55QY

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Basic Concepts in Quantum Information

S. M. Girvin

arxiv:1302.5842 v1 · 2013-02-23 · 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{PJWLEHXOZ3ZOSFRS7WPT5E55QY}

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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	2026-05-18T03:32:43.518102Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7a6cb21eeecef2e91632fd9f3e93bd86235bd31b01cb485e36e6262eed97ca0f

Aliases

arxiv: 1302.5842 · arxiv_version: 1302.5842v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1302.5842 · pith_short_12: PJWLEHXOZ3ZO · pith_short_16: PJWLEHXOZ3ZOSFRS · pith_short_8: PJWLEHXO

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/PJWLEHXOZ3ZOSFRS7WPT5E55QY \
  | 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: 7a6cb21eeecef2e91632fd9f3e93bd86235bd31b01cb485e36e6262eed97ca0f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "887158198f37f4895a9a7cf61798cb755afb225378515972736515bb804b16d7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-02-23T20:42:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b0c35be9b9fcf99ce08a5fcc1f8dbce89a4eea843c2358005c1c46b891e1e4cd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1302.5842",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}