Pith Number

pith:VZ45Q467

pith:2012:VZ45Q467FWXVXEDCPRHQWLLZM3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Metaplectic Anyons, Majorana Zero Modes, and their Computational Power

Chetan Nayak, Matthew B. Hastings, Zhenghan Wang

arxiv:1210.5477 v2 · 2012-10-19 · cond-mat.str-el · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VZ45Q467FWXVXEDCPRHQWLLZM3}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T03:07:02.112189Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ae79d873df2daf5b90627c4f0b2d7966dbaba4304246428d9d5b201364119ee9

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.5477 · arxiv_version: 1210.5477v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.5477 · pith_short_12: VZ45Q467FWXV · pith_short_16: VZ45Q467FWXVXEDC · pith_short_8: VZ45Q467

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/VZ45Q467FWXVXEDCPRHQWLLZM3 \
  | 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: ae79d873df2daf5b90627c4f0b2d7966dbaba4304246428d9d5b201364119ee9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b3b859ed52a0e6d573843f8e3c0a15eabac0760c704d5e7c59f31507a254e57e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.str-el",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-19T17:34:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b271eb7ba83f00e7958758d901a802240b07d3c48c1b9609a1593d8159ff00e5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.5477",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}