Pith Number

pith:VL7HJTXD

pith:2010:VL7HJTXDT2L2PLLVFCKCDZIECJ

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Preservation of loss in linear-optical processing

A. I. Lvovsky, Dominic W. Berry

arxiv:1010.6302 v3 · 2010-10-29 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VL7HJTXDT2L2PLLVFCKCDZIECJ}

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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	2026-05-18T02:23:38.146756Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aafe74cee39e97a7ad75289421e50412628269317dd7ac70440d33c3619f8731

Aliases

arxiv: 1010.6302 · arxiv_version: 1010.6302v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1010.6302 · pith_short_12: VL7HJTXDT2L2 · pith_short_16: VL7HJTXDT2L2PLLV · pith_short_8: VL7HJTXD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VL7HJTXDT2L2PLLVFCKCDZIECJ \
  | 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: aafe74cee39e97a7ad75289421e50412628269317dd7ac70440d33c3619f8731

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "81a5a64b34f0f26c69dd70ce5821db54b0d555356f67ec960f216f33a2e18e50",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-10-29T19:58:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "68a2dac1f943c3c13427e00f0198c3936220eb08ded5bb6587a1153e4853321a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1010.6302",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}