Pith Number

pith:W4YICFIP

pith:2016:W4YICFIPAJMV6SA34HWYM5GWNO

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Improving performance in quantum mechanics with explicit incentives to correct mistakes

Andrew Mason, Benjamin R. Brown, Chandralekha Singh

arxiv:1602.07611 v1 · 2016-02-24 · physics.ed-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W4YICFIPAJMV6SA34HWYM5GWNO}

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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	2026-05-18T01:16:40.536647Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b73081150f02595f481be1ed8674d66ba49dfc4f522fd6bcf21c4ec3ad8f2945

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.07611 · arxiv_version: 1602.07611v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.07611 · pith_short_12: W4YICFIPAJMV · pith_short_16: W4YICFIPAJMV6SA3 · pith_short_8: W4YICFIP

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/W4YICFIPAJMV6SA34HWYM5GWNO \
  | 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: b73081150f02595f481be1ed8674d66ba49dfc4f522fd6bcf21c4ec3ad8f2945

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e6e3d21eb36cf0b065537ffaef71c030c883b83a1acaa33b48f7866fc29987bf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ed-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-24T17:35:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9b65ba031ee2103267df492ffbd748d612119f143091e82b5da44f44d49107c5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.07611",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}