Pith Number

pith:U2OIYM46

pith:2017:U2OIYM462UUPRCHDWCRQUM22IE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Experimentally Generated Random Numbers Certified by the Impossibility of Superluminal Signaling

Alan Mink, Andrea Rommal, Bradley Christensen, Emanuel Knill, Lynden K. Shalm, Peter Bierhorst, Sae Woo Nam, Scott Glancy, Stephen Jordan, Yi-Kai Liu

arxiv:1702.05178 v1 · 2017-02-16 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U2OIYM462UUPRCHDWCRQUM22IE}

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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	2026-05-18T00:50:34.584139Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a69c8c339ed528f888e3b0a30a335a4112748b1d85d9606ebe01218c55860aeb

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.05178 · arxiv_version: 1702.05178v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.05178 · pith_short_12: U2OIYM462UUP · pith_short_16: U2OIYM462UUPRCHD · pith_short_8: U2OIYM46

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/U2OIYM462UUPRCHDWCRQUM22IE \
  | 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: a69c8c339ed528f888e3b0a30a335a4112748b1d85d9606ebe01218c55860aeb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6665ff16391f05be73dbf4717d9185db5ba9db3208bbe8ccea5d7dbb4f301131",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-16T22:43:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c54f7b3e87b9e5d605e498f0198d58b02fc54ac502aeeaf43b2f255b03297244"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.05178",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}