Pith Number

pith:VKL5O5CJ

pith:2006:VKL5O5CJAVHXKFZ2HDS37RBPKO

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Communicating over adversarial quantum channels using quantum list codes

Debbie Leung, Graeme Smith

arxiv:quant-ph/0605086 v2 · 2006-05-09 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VKL5O5CJAVHXKFZ2HDS37RBPKO}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T15:07:04.992808Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aa97d77449054f75173a38e5bfc42f53a4fb4a76829f6c25d9c43cb701121ffd

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0605086 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0605086v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0605086 · pith_short_12: VKL5O5CJAVHX · pith_short_16: VKL5O5CJAVHXKFZ2 · pith_short_8: VKL5O5CJ

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/VKL5O5CJAVHXKFZ2HDS37RBPKO \
  | 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: aa97d77449054f75173a38e5bfc42f53a4fb4a76829f6c25d9c43cb701121ffd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d3548962702a0cf43010719a1776491eea64142fda362655d9e08b97cdb7a56c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-05-09T21:05:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0e0b2d6a187b536a54be65c685d2fad0d6890cab21fd261bbd3f376f870f428f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0605086",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}