Pith Number

pith:S4BYHXJO

pith:2012:S4BYHXJOLFV5KWYEHP6VHXT7M7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Preferred states of the apparatus

Anu Venugopalan

arxiv:1211.2596 v1 · 2012-11-12 · 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{S4BYHXJOLFV5KWYEHP6VHXT7M7}

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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	2026-05-18T01:53:16.781637Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

970383dd2e596bd55b043bfd53de7f67e066a923f39e4dd3ea7f6b2481e513e3

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.2596 · arxiv_version: 1211.2596v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.2596 · pith_short_12: S4BYHXJOLFV5 · pith_short_16: S4BYHXJOLFV5KWYE · pith_short_8: S4BYHXJO

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/S4BYHXJOLFV5KWYEHP6VHXT7M7 \
  | 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: 970383dd2e596bd55b043bfd53de7f67e066a923f39e4dd3ea7f6b2481e513e3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "314a520609c97c78e6fd55720be11d37156711b953312a8e17eea49ddac4b01e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-12T12:53:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f6e99ff5ef68f6bc5efefdafcb69f4cea19837cab7c29e953cb59d74bac7d6a8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.2596",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}