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pith:Q6M6GV4R

pith:2016:Q6M6GV4RMTASF77WMDWDVBDIMM
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Are Incoherent Operations Physically Consistent? -- A Critical Examination of Incoherent Operations

Eric Chitambar, Gilad Gour

arxiv:1602.06969 v1 · 2016-02-22 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{Q6M6GV4RMTASF77WMDWDVBDIMM}

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First computed 2026-05-18T00:54:03.481384Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8799e3579164c122fff660ec3a8468631074b9d563fed026ce4d0ccf2c558929

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.06969 · arxiv_version: 1602.06969v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.06969 · pith_short_12: Q6M6GV4RMTAS · pith_short_16: Q6M6GV4RMTASF77W · pith_short_8: Q6M6GV4R
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Q6M6GV4RMTASF77WMDWDVBDIMM \
  | 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: 8799e3579164c122fff660ec3a8468631074b9d563fed026ce4d0ccf2c558929
Canonical record JSON
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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "48218afacbfb5c46a0d08ade8651c2c8ddd8a71a4591562a4b09bab46214b078",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-22T21:28:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a8058bee8b0b9f972762bd8deeb7132e679607537684f66ac7edf46fb73d3531"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
}