Pith Number

pith:U7VG5LAP

pith:2017:U7VG5LAP6LMIYSALRKONNHWUDU

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Mixed basis quantum key distribution with linear optics

Andreas W. Schell, Janik Wolters, Mladen Pavicic, Oliver Benson

arxiv:1709.06194 v1 · 2017-09-18 · quant-ph · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U7VG5LAP6LMIYSALRKONNHWUDU}

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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	2026-05-18T00:34:54.063604Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a7ea6eac0ff2d88c480b8a9cd69ed41d2ac0a3cb9a2fb2b8f4b67c63a7beb99d

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.06194 · arxiv_version: 1709.06194v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.06194 · pith_short_12: U7VG5LAP6LMI · pith_short_16: U7VG5LAP6LMIYSAL · pith_short_8: U7VG5LAP

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/U7VG5LAP6LMIYSALRKONNHWUDU \
  | 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: a7ea6eac0ff2d88c480b8a9cd69ed41d2ac0a3cb9a2fb2b8f4b67c63a7beb99d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ae7aee07ccb225633179e31b4e75cf87709ab91fdc34658ff409bf17b80811ca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-18T22:51:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "99fa54f04f83c8c42ffa746f48feab214525db1daddd132de2d88ac947618d60"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.06194",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}