Pith Number

pith:UJCJHU6B

pith:2010:UJCJHU6BIZQV3TKJOOBK4DCRSM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

One-shot Multiparty State Merging

Nicolas Dutil, Patrick Hayden

arxiv:1011.1974 v1 · 2010-11-09 · quant-ph · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UJCJHU6BIZQV3TKJOOBK4DCRSM}

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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	2026-05-18T03:51:47.410093Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a24493d3c146615dcd497382ae0c5193101f01c47e12e5a818ccea62687aa7dc

Aliases

arxiv: 1011.1974 · arxiv_version: 1011.1974v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1011.1974 · pith_short_12: UJCJHU6BIZQV · pith_short_16: UJCJHU6BIZQV3TKJ · pith_short_8: UJCJHU6B

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/UJCJHU6BIZQV3TKJOOBK4DCRSM \
  | 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: a24493d3c146615dcd497382ae0c5193101f01c47e12e5a818ccea62687aa7dc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2b255ef14c14c7b523d2c29856dfe8144a9bd086521ecd841ac021f160092323",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-11-09T05:11:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5fb6740d5a145f6b27f9f07f1e3f58ea9e933dd975d4006b88b6de3327f3204c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1011.1974",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}