Pith Number

pith:S6ZMWLQB

pith:2017:S6ZMWLQBFEX5EDHJAYHXVCQYNN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A repetition code of 15 qubits

Daniel Loss, James R. Wootton

arxiv:1709.00990 v3 · 2017-09-04 · 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{S6ZMWLQBFEX5EDHJAYHXVCQYNN}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

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	2026-05-18T00:06:51.150020Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

97b2cb2e01292fd20ce9060f7a8a186b5ccd576af2f21b294774509c7bacfc20

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.00990 · arxiv_version: 1709.00990v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.00990 · pith_short_12: S6ZMWLQBFEX5 · pith_short_16: S6ZMWLQBFEX5EDHJ · pith_short_8: S6ZMWLQB

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/S6ZMWLQBFEX5EDHJAYHXVCQYNN \
  | 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: 97b2cb2e01292fd20ce9060f7a8a186b5ccd576af2f21b294774509c7bacfc20

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0b2a97f9767c951973e977c16312042badb06a1ba9cf86f415929c0ec4775d79",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-04T15:00:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "222bf83f61f7a52af8fe45cd13fcd6b2ace0a8db4bee5a8460edb781dc1b5afa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.00990",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}