Pith Number

pith:UIFBPTGM

pith:2012:UIFBPTGMPBUUOFQWV2LN22SYPA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Dissecting the qutrit

Gniewomir Sarbicki, Ingemar Bengtsson

arxiv:1208.2118 v1 · 2012-08-10 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UIFBPTGMPBUUOFQWV2LN22SYPA}

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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	2026-05-18T03:31:54.153661Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a20a17cccc7869471616ae96dd6a587813587787ea9bf745abb81a0368ce599e

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.2118 · arxiv_version: 1208.2118v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.2118 · pith_short_12: UIFBPTGMPBUU · pith_short_16: UIFBPTGMPBUUOFQW · pith_short_8: UIFBPTGM

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/UIFBPTGMPBUUOFQWV2LN22SYPA \
  | 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: a20a17cccc7869471616ae96dd6a587813587787ea9bf745abb81a0368ce599e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fa804418abe21143f22bbf1844243eecaabdcb98ffb51e798f8e7fdd4f5a8320",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-10T08:51:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "008c2fd5d0f2bd2e179192032d55af546a4303c685b63cb679e0e5030de60ff8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.2118",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}