Pith Number

pith:RN4T5XXH

pith:2001:RN4T5XXHSD4OY2MORWQ7JRUDDR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Signatures of the Pair-Coherent State

A. Gilchrist, W. J. Munro

arxiv:quant-ph/0102059 v1 · 2001-02-12 · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RN4T5XXHSD4OY2MORWQ7JRUDDR}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:02.852324Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8b793edee790f8ec698e8da1f4c6831c54afbc19cac6799fb61ee4cce48f1c93

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0102059 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0102059v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0102059 · pith_short_12: RN4T5XXHSD4O · pith_short_16: RN4T5XXHSD4OY2MO · pith_short_8: RN4T5XXH

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/RN4T5XXHSD4OY2MORWQ7JRUDDR \
  | 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: 8b793edee790f8ec698e8da1f4c6831c54afbc19cac6799fb61ee4cce48f1c93

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ca03026832ff61b5c9ecf2fc7d4f6df48daf6d7771c72ff23a6e65662556131d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2001-02-12T01:26:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d2dab37988fef306ac57706f08a2234581f011d51bec7cefa1d2dbe365f8a2b6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0102059",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}