Pith Number

pith:RYW2JVK3

pith:2016:RYW2JVK3V2KZXRQMVWL7W6B4IH

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Completeness and the ZX-calculus

Miriam Backens

arxiv:1602.08954 v1 · 2016-02-29 · quant-ph

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RYW2JVK3V2KZXRQMVWL7W6B4IH}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T01:19:51.599871Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8e2da4d55bae959bc60cad97fb783c41ebaad71b69c03711c07fa22bc8360616

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.08954 · arxiv_version: 1602.08954v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.08954 · pith_short_12: RYW2JVK3V2KZ · pith_short_16: RYW2JVK3V2KZXRQM · pith_short_8: RYW2JVK3

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/RYW2JVK3V2KZXRQMVWL7W6B4IH \
  | 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: 8e2da4d55bae959bc60cad97fb783c41ebaad71b69c03711c07fa22bc8360616

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "69431cddba8da2410281f66a5cb8d3a1fcd6cf87907f2c0f2267b7c6a21266b0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-29T13:45:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "91dd52acf692457b66de936a781d737f6e05e956450f8f5bc646d573d6f137a2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.08954",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}