Pith Number

pith:URTCA3O3

pith:2012:URTCA3O3E7VD67CYKFHZL3SYZA

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N-Photon wave packets interacting with an arbitrary quantum system

Agata M. Branczyk, Ben Q. Baragiola, Joshua Combes, Robert L. Cook

arxiv:1202.3430 v3 · 2012-02-15 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{URTCA3O3E7VD67CYKFHZL3SYZA}

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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	2026-05-18T03:48:47.954178Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a466206ddb27ea3f7c58514f95ee58c82e0cbdf5f190976bef550bd3c2fe9de8

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.3430 · arxiv_version: 1202.3430v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.3430 · pith_short_12: URTCA3O3E7VD · pith_short_16: URTCA3O3E7VD67CY · pith_short_8: URTCA3O3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/URTCA3O3E7VD67CYKFHZL3SYZA \
  | 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: a466206ddb27ea3f7c58514f95ee58c82e0cbdf5f190976bef550bd3c2fe9de8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7e054e680570ac63e7412c31aa6ce1f41bd00f9583a1c9fc5da6b42f9e9bf0e5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-15T20:53:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "514c2da00348de972a10d394013b24d983bb638b299e18eac3c795bcbf7ef0d2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.3430",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}