Pith Number

pith:T5GCKST2

pith:2014:T5GCKST2B73ZST6B6PLPVFCCYO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Comparing different approaches for generating random numbers device-independently using a photon pair source

A. Martin, C.C.W. Lim, H. Zbinden, J.-D. Bancal, N. Gisin, N. Sangouard, P. Sekatski, R.T. Thew, V. Caprara Vivoli

arxiv:1409.8051 v2 · 2014-09-29 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{T5GCKST2B73ZST6B6PLPVFCCYO}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:26:10.459807Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9f4c254a7a0ff7994fc1f3d6fa9442c3b9d7348e3484774fac55bbe814665ec5

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.8051 · arxiv_version: 1409.8051v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.8051 · pith_short_12: T5GCKST2B73Z · pith_short_16: T5GCKST2B73ZST6B · pith_short_8: T5GCKST2

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/T5GCKST2B73ZST6B6PLPVFCCYO \
  | 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: 9f4c254a7a0ff7994fc1f3d6fa9442c3b9d7348e3484774fac55bbe814665ec5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "61005051143b911f8fafb6fc7328967b395ed9d6c7bfcf2128e43d450b749320",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-29T09:52:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3d561650cbe10de70fb2b7308504018e71017e405ac6830741036cf958a348ff"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.8051",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}