Pith Number

pith:VKXVH2YY

pith:2010:VKXVH2YYBNXGRV63Q2FYLHSTJ4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Achieving the physical limits of the bounded-storage model

Prabha Mandayam, Stephanie Wehner

arxiv:1009.1596 v2 · 2010-09-08 · quant-ph · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VKXVH2YYBNXGRV63Q2FYLHSTJ4}

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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	2026-05-18T04:23:02.900874Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aaaf53eb180b6e68d7db868b859e534f04c216fc93b7a1d6026a46408770afda

Aliases

arxiv: 1009.1596 · arxiv_version: 1009.1596v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1009.1596 · pith_short_12: VKXVH2YYBNXG · pith_short_16: VKXVH2YYBNXGRV63 · pith_short_8: VKXVH2YY

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/VKXVH2YYBNXGRV63Q2FYLHSTJ4 \
  | 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: aaaf53eb180b6e68d7db868b859e534f04c216fc93b7a1d6026a46408770afda

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "79d7b84594af44dad849dc0ff6a3fd0f7e8bf108a91cfb48ca60ee6db1f19022",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-09-08T17:38:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "eeff9f0ddd13d3eed53ce4eb4490f9a9e8797ef8f1e76c6dd6783abfb82e44a6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1009.1596",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}