Pith Number

pith:PRIGFYJZ

pith:2012:PRIGFYJZAOITQKNSBVSW62JY3S

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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Philip Pearle

arxiv:1209.5082 v2 · 2012-09-23 · 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{PRIGFYJZAOITQKNSBVSW62JY3S}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:44:23.570232Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7c5062e13903913829b20d656f6938dc90668d42b7b104d5606b4c463707868f

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.5082 · arxiv_version: 1209.5082v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.5082 · pith_short_12: PRIGFYJZAOIT · pith_short_16: PRIGFYJZAOITQKNS · pith_short_8: PRIGFYJZ

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/PRIGFYJZAOITQKNSBVSW62JY3S \
  | 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: 7c5062e13903913829b20d656f6938dc90668d42b7b104d5606b4c463707868f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e2b2cf9b166908631a0c85f412da818fb10e34e3146a445e9506663733505e41",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-23T16:25:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8c67b314715af979408f0056e3f4ba35cab737b572bd0aac4731a4cd94331a67"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.5082",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}