Pith Number

pith:R4ZPCGZA

pith:2006:R4ZPCGZAG4A7ARCCH2DNVGHRGG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum speedup of classical mixing processes

Peter C. Richter

arxiv:quant-ph/0609204 v2 · 2006-09-26 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R4ZPCGZAG4A7ARCCH2DNVGHRGG}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T04:08:45.742421Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8f32f11b203701f044423e86da98f131897e6d37e2380794df762bd9202a0895

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0609204 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0609204v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0609204 · pith_short_12: R4ZPCGZAG4A7 · pith_short_16: R4ZPCGZAG4A7ARCC · pith_short_8: R4ZPCGZA

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/R4ZPCGZAG4A7ARCCH2DNVGHRGG \
  | 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: 8f32f11b203701f044423e86da98f131897e6d37e2380794df762bd9202a0895

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "17e504d5bbefffc92fb4c012bd9a30680b76d7294104808baea490c8a8cd6008",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-09-26T20:52:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "08a0bdc1e5d045825fa4a2053256fb5c70035253a59e81c7f12f37dc1d1c2c53"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0609204",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}