Pith Number

pith:TLZMBIXP

pith:2016:TLZMBIXPS5LVJJNXIDKLBVCYDK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A certification scheme for the boson sampler

Austin Lund, Kai Liu, Timothy Ralph, Yong-Jian Gu

arxiv:1607.03584 v2 · 2016-07-13 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TLZMBIXPS5LVJJNXIDKLBVCYDK}

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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	2026-05-18T01:08:16.173575Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9af2c0a2ef975754a5b740d4b0d4581a8b65caebd2a5ea45ac2525e2ba041bfb

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.03584 · arxiv_version: 1607.03584v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.03584 · pith_short_12: TLZMBIXPS5LV · pith_short_16: TLZMBIXPS5LVJJNX · pith_short_8: TLZMBIXP

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/TLZMBIXPS5LVJJNXIDKLBVCYDK \
  | 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: 9af2c0a2ef975754a5b740d4b0d4581a8b65caebd2a5ea45ac2525e2ba041bfb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fcecb25b1347caae0b0a42b164c62f7f020790dd0364545e9e482bd2e5057511",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-13T03:41:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4adc6a3b56b210b35b969cc3c7bfd64bf81239c7e545371dc8cd104de77347eb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.03584",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}