Pith Number

pith:SOBHP72Z

pith:2012:SOBHP72ZTMKLFWUPG3KXNZZ5EB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A graphical approach to measurement-based quantum computing

Ross Duncan

arxiv:1203.6242 v1 · 2012-03-28 · quant-ph · cs.LO · math.CT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SOBHP72ZTMKLFWUPG3KXNZZ5EB}

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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	2026-05-18T03:59:03.852138Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

938277ff599b14b2da8f36d576e73d20573d0705e480e9442905d638e8e78a72

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.6242 · arxiv_version: 1203.6242v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.6242 · pith_short_12: SOBHP72ZTMKL · pith_short_16: SOBHP72ZTMKLFWUP · pith_short_8: SOBHP72Z

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/SOBHP72ZTMKLFWUPG3KXNZZ5EB \
  | 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: 938277ff599b14b2da8f36d576e73d20573d0705e480e9442905d638e8e78a72

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d7510e1cc582263a5380a3008b66467323194967f34ee5695a43fe678127d5e2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LO",
      "math.CT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-28T12:16:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a3bbb0893980a535ed77f80210e95adb10d4877f6c7f9ae3621c24abc0d64799"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.6242",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}