Pith Number

pith:W7BXQBTS

pith:2019:W7BXQBTSIWMXBKHNT5YLWKECN4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Generalized rules for coherence transfer from local to global scale

Moses Fayngold

arxiv:1908.06185 v5 · 2019-08-16 · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W7BXQBTSIWMXBKHNT5YLWKECN4}

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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	2026-07-05T04:40:05.514420Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b7c3780672459970a8ed9f70bb28826f34efbbcd088dffb423000425277c278a

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.06185 · arxiv_version: 1908.06185v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.06185 · pith_short_12: W7BXQBTSIWMX · pith_short_16: W7BXQBTSIWMXBKHN · pith_short_8: W7BXQBTS

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/W7BXQBTSIWMXBKHNT5YLWKECN4 \
  | 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: b7c3780672459970a8ed9f70bb28826f34efbbcd088dffb423000425277c278a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d33e032b42587d9fba9a14a991059f8bdfe0b3b7b319a6229a0cc36e6891c10f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-16T21:28:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2bb326454ce76e9c4570660a9e41b3f332e01a8410088da12529de118edf3ba8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.06185",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}