Pith Number

pith:WIV5QH7M

pith:2017:WIV5QH7MFVHWFOAV5UHSIIDAHM

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Error-tolerant witnessing of divergences in classical and quantum statistical complexity

Farzad Ghafari, Geoff J. Pryde, Howard M. Wiseman, Jayne Thompson, Joseph Ho, Mile Gu, Whei Yeap Suen

arxiv:1711.03661 v2 · 2017-11-10 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WIV5QH7MFVHWFOAV5UHSIIDAHM}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-19T16:11:06.918595Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b22bd81fec2d4f62b815ed0f2420603b0e4330652493af50725da606f2abdd32

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.03661 · arxiv_version: 1711.03661v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.03661 · pith_short_12: WIV5QH7MFVHW · pith_short_16: WIV5QH7MFVHWFOAV · pith_short_8: WIV5QH7M

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/WIV5QH7MFVHWFOAV5UHSIIDAHM \
  | 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: b22bd81fec2d4f62b815ed0f2420603b0e4330652493af50725da606f2abdd32

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "39405a28ffbf9deb9f9b6965d410bac6730b4217217f72a9f413f6d791dedf56",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-10T01:10:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e314acfdea648c7c6d6edb87325e00a72b7afacb17b47baaec3d6d0bda08ccd0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.03661",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}