Pith Number

pith:U23ZPS22

pith:2016:U23ZPS22NHKQUWQ42IQKZGY2JR

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Improved key rate bounds for practical decoy-state quantum key distribution systems

Mohsen Razavi, Qi Zhao, Xiongfeng Ma, Zhen Zhang

arxiv:1611.02524 v1 · 2016-11-08 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U23ZPS22NHKQUWQ42IQKZGY2JR}

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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	2026-05-18T00:51:42.548013Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a6b797cb5a69d50a5a1cd220ac9b1a4c477ef2d8156d3919862caa308f44a244

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.02524 · arxiv_version: 1611.02524v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.02524 · pith_short_12: U23ZPS22NHKQ · pith_short_16: U23ZPS22NHKQUWQ4 · pith_short_8: U23ZPS22

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/U23ZPS22NHKQUWQ42IQKZGY2JR \
  | 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: a6b797cb5a69d50a5a1cd220ac9b1a4c477ef2d8156d3919862caa308f44a244

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a83365939725d3cc0b3d3cc39d6fb76d72688405b04a92f3f128bccac54949b0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-08T14:16:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a19d0cd4afb52d9dc2e7e5e4c30f896e818e697f66afb856e476edd64eb3a590"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.02524",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}