Pith Number

pith:VVNTBSWN

pith:2011:VVNTBSWN6VU75GQTDPGMAD6NWH

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The Basics of Perfect Communication through Quantum Networks

Alastair Kay

arxiv:1102.2338 v2 · 2011-02-11 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VVNTBSWN6VU75GQTDPGMAD6NWH}

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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	2026-05-18T04:14:37.965949Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad5b30cacdf569fe9a131bccc00fcdb1f95c873f5243024904051205d3336674

Aliases

arxiv: 1102.2338 · arxiv_version: 1102.2338v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1102.2338 · pith_short_12: VVNTBSWN6VU7 · pith_short_16: VVNTBSWN6VU75GQT · pith_short_8: VVNTBSWN

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/VVNTBSWN6VU75GQTDPGMAD6NWH \
  | 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: ad5b30cacdf569fe9a131bccc00fcdb1f95c873f5243024904051205d3336674

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f80198c1645c79143997aa56aa4e802ab3e70eda2a5fbf31b1b00427786d9dd6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-02-11T12:51:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f8f21d6cf81d1fcdca63c8d221596acb929c15423d381764f71adbc260f3401e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1102.2338",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}