Pith Number

pith:QTH3LRNA

pith:2011:QTH3LRNA4NKH5MIPZFDOHGXNB6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

General Quantum Key Distribution in Higher Dimension

Han-Duo Shi, Heng Fan, Jin Lei, Liang-zhu Mu, Li Jing, Yi-Nan Wang, Zhao-Xi Xiong

arxiv:1108.4540 v3 · 2011-08-23 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QTH3LRNA4NKH5MIPZFDOHGXNB6}

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4 Citations open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:03:20.221949Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

84cfb5c5a0e3547eb10fc946e39aed0f92598a11b3d77a1a1da32e7b220e4d8f

Aliases

arxiv: 1108.4540 · arxiv_version: 1108.4540v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1108.4540 · pith_short_12: QTH3LRNA4NKH · pith_short_16: QTH3LRNA4NKH5MIP · pith_short_8: QTH3LRNA

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/QTH3LRNA4NKH5MIPZFDOHGXNB6 \
  | 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: 84cfb5c5a0e3547eb10fc946e39aed0f92598a11b3d77a1a1da32e7b220e4d8f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ad8cd670eef3fe892aec84dcd3ee0e768416568ca040ff654b87a0e2ffa36b9d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-08-23T09:56:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dc75ce7c666bab60b24b84667fad918b7ec18027d4209da79370bb159b0f85c0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1108.4540",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}