Pith Number

pith:RPVGCOYB

pith:2012:RPVGCOYBTD4NUNB67DFA7FFFPZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Sub-binomial light

G. S. Agarwal, J. Sperling, W. Vogel

arxiv:1205.4669 v1 · 2012-05-21 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RPVGCOYBTD4NUNB67DFA7FFFPZ}

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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	2026-05-18T01:57:24.995490Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8bea613b0198f8da343ef8ca0f94a57e61b333adef7b55e356fb228ce73e4c20

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.4669 · arxiv_version: 1205.4669v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.4669 · pith_short_12: RPVGCOYBTD4N · pith_short_16: RPVGCOYBTD4NUNB6 · pith_short_8: RPVGCOYB

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/RPVGCOYBTD4NUNB67DFA7FFFPZ \
  | 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: 8bea613b0198f8da343ef8ca0f94a57e61b333adef7b55e356fb228ce73e4c20

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b5bf6e1dd9a9954f9aa87e1766d1de40e96ef9aae89929b35baf392ed5eb0ecf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-21T18:13:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "df0496dbb211d202cd4b09c4654134e5602216c918fe773b41a1bddeac66f59c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.4669",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}