Pith Number

pith:PWTPOXHP

pith:2011:PWTPOXHPCMG7GAQ5TTZIZJWFJU

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Towards practical classical processing for the surface code

Adam C. Whiteside, Austin G. Fowler, Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg

arxiv:1110.5133 v2 · 2011-10-24 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PWTPOXHPCMG7GAQ5TTZIZJWFJU}

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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	2026-05-18T03:56:35.338265Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7da6f75cef130df3021d9cf28ca6c54d0f09bc057aa1126438a105871c1fbe5c

Aliases

arxiv: 1110.5133 · arxiv_version: 1110.5133v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1110.5133 · pith_short_12: PWTPOXHPCMG7 · pith_short_16: PWTPOXHPCMG7GAQ5 · pith_short_8: PWTPOXHP

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/PWTPOXHPCMG7GAQ5TTZIZJWFJU \
  | 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: 7da6f75cef130df3021d9cf28ca6c54d0f09bc057aa1126438a105871c1fbe5c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8b5084abcc4ba1d73fddc34e62f56cef83dec0c6958df5e7d79e7af507703b7c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-10-24T05:22:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d79b3aa9f144360e3aa0c4cbd39aed7f3b0d02dfd2a719a0848ea681e94fea67"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1110.5133",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}