Pith Number

pith:UJBX5RWM

pith:2008:UJBX5RWMGRFDHHKV4NM7QHLZWN

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Measurement-Only Topological Quantum Computation

Chetan Nayak, Michael Freedman, Parsa Bonderson

arxiv:0802.0279 v2 · 2008-02-03 · quant-ph · cond-mat.mes-hall · hep-th

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First computed	2026-07-04T15:50:13.765871Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a2437ec6cc344a339d55e359f81d79b359c4e74a075979bf0af54d230e0fcfe2

Aliases

arxiv: 0802.0279 · arxiv_version: 0802.0279v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0802.0279 · pith_short_12: UJBX5RWMGRFD · pith_short_16: UJBX5RWMGRFDHHKV · pith_short_8: UJBX5RWM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UJBX5RWMGRFDHHKV4NM7QHLZWN \
  | 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: a2437ec6cc344a339d55e359f81d79b359c4e74a075979bf0af54d230e0fcfe2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "937e8ee60025f07a2aaf71f6a914e6e599cb34c83df5fa68fa29d0c2cbba148c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.mes-hall",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-02-03T18:14:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b9ff3efc27535bfcfdfb204f6547a5ef902f40b1c41d0dd3c7af89adbef2dc25"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0802.0279",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}