Pith Number

pith:Q4PFVNCS

pith:2011:Q4PFVNCSRNLIBSY63MAP2QSCPV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Universal quantum state merging

Gisbert Jan{\ss}en, Holger Boche, Igor Bjelakovi\'c

arxiv:1106.2850 v3 · 2011-06-15 · 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{Q4PFVNCSRNLIBSY63MAP2QSCPV}

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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	2026-05-18T03:02:21.554833Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

871e5ab4528b5680cb1edb00fd42427d6a13d230e9bdd6500276dc8d718e76d7

Aliases

arxiv: 1106.2850 · arxiv_version: 1106.2850v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1106.2850 · pith_short_12: Q4PFVNCSRNLI · pith_short_16: Q4PFVNCSRNLIBSY6 · pith_short_8: Q4PFVNCS

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/Q4PFVNCSRNLIBSY63MAP2QSCPV \
  | 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: 871e5ab4528b5680cb1edb00fd42427d6a13d230e9bdd6500276dc8d718e76d7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6a1b4655119bef9dbe9f508299442a3dc6d924c78b69aa27c00adda675ea064f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-06-15T01:05:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5fed171a167a56b79b8afdc5188d9bebd0e0b6783b85dd4e72b65aad12d1e015"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1106.2850",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}