Pith Number

pith:SKDAWY4O

pith:2016:SKDAWY4OJITVN5F6CJJSFCZQPA

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Classical verification of quantum circuits containing few basis changes

Joseph F. Fitzsimons, Tommaso F. Demarie, Yingkai Ouyang

arxiv:1612.04914 v1 · 2016-12-15 · quant-ph · cs.CC · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SKDAWY4OJITVN5F6CJJSFCZQPA}

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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	2026-05-18T00:18:20.629022Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

92860b638e4a2756f4be1253228b3078205beb63cf3bae71a2b17980a1941d9c

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.04914 · arxiv_version: 1612.04914v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.04914 · pith_short_12: SKDAWY4OJITV · pith_short_16: SKDAWY4OJITVN5F6 · pith_short_8: SKDAWY4O

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SKDAWY4OJITVN5F6CJJSFCZQPA \
  | 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: 92860b638e4a2756f4be1253228b3078205beb63cf3bae71a2b17980a1941d9c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f4b6162da5a97021e23f1f0fed4efd051618b237fdc295c64f949bd00721efbb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC",
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-15T03:24:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e0a2514deb8e0e3dd9f69a858c467681ac0b81f1f58baa4e38bdb1b921fd5ae6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.04914",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}