Pith Number

pith:SC42J4UX

pith:2004:SC42J4UXRIYSUJK6JGBDVSGV43

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Quantum Computing, Postselection, and Probabilistic Polynomial-Time

Scott Aaronson

arxiv:quant-ph/0412187 v1 · 2004-12-23 · quant-ph · cs.CC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SC42J4UXRIYSUJK6JGBDVSGV43}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-04T14:46:53.547091Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

90b9a4f2978a312a255e49823ac8d5e6c9dc4a499abd2f1b36c1e79da43c4603

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0412187 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0412187v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0412187 · pith_short_12: SC42J4UXRIYS · pith_short_16: SC42J4UXRIYSUJK6 · pith_short_8: SC42J4UX

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/SC42J4UXRIYSUJK6JGBDVSGV43 \
  | 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: 90b9a4f2978a312a255e49823ac8d5e6c9dc4a499abd2f1b36c1e79da43c4603

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c28f06b77d8f7f2554dace3bf19d2e43b6d564ecd42f2aa13eee966fefa6a0cc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2004-12-23T15:09:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4109c37dc342cdf4346d76e7ddc5ad2283b5aaf0427e33b0696e3b37ae017d16"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0412187",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}