Pith Number

pith:V62265FX

pith:2016:V62265FXYK6FROATWKDNZRUTXB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Approximate reversibility in the context of entropy gain, information gain, and complete positivity

Francesco Buscemi, Mark M. Wilde, Siddhartha Das

arxiv:1601.01207 v3 · 2016-01-06 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V62265FXYK6FROATWKDNZRUTXB}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:10:59.525524Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

afb5af74b7c2bc58b813b286dcc693b8540c221b5a2afd3cff2b95b90893246c

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.01207 · arxiv_version: 1601.01207v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.01207 · pith_short_12: V62265FXYK6F · pith_short_16: V62265FXYK6FROAT · pith_short_8: V62265FX

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/V62265FXYK6FROATWKDNZRUTXB \
  | 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: afb5af74b7c2bc58b813b286dcc693b8540c221b5a2afd3cff2b95b90893246c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "35db5573fcefb42be18e0c39e110554112ab04f31aede9f4fd8036421bc8072f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-06T15:17:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "231f5f84db2a317526ad787b3d6b6e6fa7d5797d07423873dce206c3f47cb0e2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.01207",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}