Pith Number

pith:VMAQWFZL

pith:2020:VMAQWFZLESVE3KQOYRAVJQYZGA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

3-Fermion topological quantum computation

Dominic J. Williamson, Sam Roberts

arxiv:2011.04693 v2 · 2020-11-09 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VMAQWFZLESVE3KQOYRAVJQYZGA}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-07-05T07:42:13.944332Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab010b172b24aa4daa0ec44154c319303adee535e49e63aeeb29bf51dd06bf20

Aliases

arxiv: 2011.04693 · arxiv_version: 2011.04693v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2011.04693 · pith_short_12: VMAQWFZLESVE · pith_short_16: VMAQWFZLESVE3KQO · pith_short_8: VMAQWFZL

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/VMAQWFZLESVE3KQOYRAVJQYZGA \
  | 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: ab010b172b24aa4daa0ec44154c319303adee535e49e63aeeb29bf51dd06bf20

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "26baa32a93b8dc08333f2e43ab73ae997e747b290507415c02d17547deafacf4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2020-11-09T19:17:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "be441f39ab157a6d307517b439b5937dbafb3e8d1e61f920d4aec18e01a1c472"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2011.04693",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}