Pith Number

pith:UJ7B2I3X

pith:2017:UJ7B2I3XFDR5BWS3I6MMX73LJY

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The Classical Complexity of Boson Sampling

Peter Clifford, Rapha\"el Clifford

arxiv:1706.01260 v2 · 2017-06-05 · cs.DS · quant-ph · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UJ7B2I3XFDR5BWS3I6MMX73LJY}

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:32:36.126879Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a27e1d237728e3d0da5b4798cbff6b4e3fa4925d5f7de383822f2721e7c57b71

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.01260 · arxiv_version: 1706.01260v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.01260 · pith_short_12: UJ7B2I3XFDR5 · pith_short_16: UJ7B2I3XFDR5BWS3 · pith_short_8: UJ7B2I3X

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UJ7B2I3XFDR5BWS3I6MMX73LJY \
  | 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: a27e1d237728e3d0da5b4798cbff6b4e3fa4925d5f7de383822f2721e7c57b71

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7fb7ade895578f31b891383489cb5ffc24955897a28493c72752b4f0b7b5f28e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph",
      "stat.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-05T10:31:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0f34468129aaf95a448f43b3b62ba7abe88715495bc0e44fd5f4a13915534d89"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.01260",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}