Pith Number

pith:RZTDFL6X

pith:2018:RZTDFL6XI4KPT3EX3GTNR2P3VW

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A simple protocol for certifying graph states and applications in quantum networks

Alexandra Krause, Damian Markham

arxiv:1801.05057 v1 · 2018-01-15 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RZTDFL6XI4KPT3EX3GTNR2P3VW}

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:25:50.128074Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8e6632afd74714f9ec97d9a6d8e9fbadb1ada0c4d88ebd3f516e1425fb351a5e

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.05057 · arxiv_version: 1801.05057v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.05057 · pith_short_12: RZTDFL6XI4KP · pith_short_16: RZTDFL6XI4KPT3EX · pith_short_8: RZTDFL6X

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/RZTDFL6XI4KPT3EX3GTNR2P3VW \
  | 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: 8e6632afd74714f9ec97d9a6d8e9fbadb1ada0c4d88ebd3f516e1425fb351a5e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f96f30fe4998ea91ec91d26a13b0fa4ad875255f0e9fd05a67c7f98df5c94467",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-15T22:39:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c7d1c3d3e51f954188261d5eca846b433c55fb08ff8724c1bf7152641aa70175"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.05057",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}