Pith Number

pith:S2VRKOIJ

pith:2010:S2VRKOIJKUDQQSHKOQ4DO24ZUI

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How to decompose arbitrary continuous-variable quantum operations

Peter van Loock, Seckin Sefi

arxiv:1010.0326 v3 · 2010-10-02 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{S2VRKOIJKUDQQSHKOQ4DO24ZUI}

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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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First computed	2026-05-18T04:10:48.340509Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

96ab15390955070848ea7438376b99a22f88bac9822512bafd4afcbcd1c90ae9

Aliases

arxiv: 1010.0326 · arxiv_version: 1010.0326v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1010.0326 · pith_short_12: S2VRKOIJKUDQ · pith_short_16: S2VRKOIJKUDQQSHK · pith_short_8: S2VRKOIJ

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/S2VRKOIJKUDQQSHKOQ4DO24ZUI \
  | 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: 96ab15390955070848ea7438376b99a22f88bac9822512bafd4afcbcd1c90ae9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4cdeaa84d231e46b48077113179daa7c096542296e86c2c0639ce8a0ba3d8863",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-10-02T12:05:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e90714c1e13cd1287016ede7f132a933953cb0e31971124a7a167b9c475a09e3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1010.0326",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}