Pith Number

pith:TE6RFVAG

pith:2009:TE6RFVAGJMUSHSS5R6IYEOFUKK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Local and global statistical distances are equivalent on pure states

Scott M. Cohen

arxiv:0906.2000 v1 · 2009-06-10 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TE6RFVAGJMUSHSS5R6IYEOFUKK}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:45:48.973103Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

993d12d4064b2923ca5d8f918238b45293b301873610936726c6169ace91dfa4

Aliases

arxiv: 0906.2000 · arxiv_version: 0906.2000v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0906.2000 · pith_short_12: TE6RFVAGJMUS · pith_short_16: TE6RFVAGJMUSHSS5 · pith_short_8: TE6RFVAG

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/TE6RFVAGJMUSHSS5R6IYEOFUKK \
  | 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: 993d12d4064b2923ca5d8f918238b45293b301873610936726c6169ace91dfa4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "565dd1b6984015ec8afa349d8c0b36db55bd7bddafaf5dcc7fdeb33f397f73b2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2009-06-10T19:45:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "97b0da51090098dd6e52d5b835bb4c8a0612478dd8b4ed17ba2689472ecb6b07"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0906.2000",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}