Pith Number

pith:VBNR2Y4T

pith:2013:VBNR2Y4TZV5HT6YFQ2TSEV7KAG

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Proofs of the Kochen-Specker theorem based on the N-qubit Pauli group

Mordecai Waegell, P.K. Aravind

arxiv:1302.4801 v3 · 2013-02-20 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VBNR2Y4TZV5HT6YFQ2TSEV7KAG}

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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	2026-05-18T03:16:26.879607Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a85b1d6393cd7a79fb0586a72257ea01889fd0e40930d63932c3e5519a305840

Aliases

arxiv: 1302.4801 · arxiv_version: 1302.4801v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1302.4801 · pith_short_12: VBNR2Y4TZV5H · pith_short_16: VBNR2Y4TZV5HT6YF · pith_short_8: VBNR2Y4T

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VBNR2Y4TZV5HT6YFQ2TSEV7KAG \
  | 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: a85b1d6393cd7a79fb0586a72257ea01889fd0e40930d63932c3e5519a305840

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "280823c32ade0bf204403ada629c9f3e604f2726689fd20142dca791ebe5a8fc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-02-20T03:13:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b8d73e04507fe80ccbc27b16a6489af30dd0a452fe156b333080b8f2d33bd0d1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1302.4801",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}