Pith Number

pith:TBOV4DCU

pith:2012:TBOV4DCURAMQTEK6EEVW5ZMBRD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

How much complementarity?

Ingemar Bengtsson

arxiv:1202.3561 v1 · 2012-02-16 · 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{TBOV4DCURAMQTEK6EEVW5ZMBRD}

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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	2026-05-18T01:58:27.672541Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

985d5e0c54881909915e212b6ee58188dbb46d186a12f193f3a8aec056388071

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.3561 · arxiv_version: 1202.3561v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.3561 · pith_short_12: TBOV4DCURAMQ · pith_short_16: TBOV4DCURAMQTEK6 · pith_short_8: TBOV4DCU

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/TBOV4DCURAMQTEK6EEVW5ZMBRD \
  | 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: 985d5e0c54881909915e212b6ee58188dbb46d186a12f193f3a8aec056388071

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c1dca1d8ebd369b199d6ae9a53ef8e3faa5fd22230d60df562438ab5fca76791",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-16T10:55:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9f06345809273df568ba6c2d8c6fc5861fb0c32a0b853485005a6c95f72558ca"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.3561",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}