Pith Number

pith:WNHGOTCC

pith:2002:WNHGOTCCRWRVMZBO4A5BUXDRNW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The large radius limit for coherent states on spheres

Brian C. Hall, Jeffrey J. Mitchell

arxiv:quant-ph/0203142 v2 · 2002-03-28 · quant-ph · hep-th · math-ph · math.MP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WNHGOTCCRWRVMZBO4A5BUXDRNW}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:42:34.661464Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b34e674c428da356642ee03a1a5c716da0dbad6b3adc91414a1cbe5683735070

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0203142 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0203142v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0203142 · pith_short_12: WNHGOTCCRWRV · pith_short_16: WNHGOTCCRWRVMZBO · pith_short_8: WNHGOTCC

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/WNHGOTCCRWRVMZBO4A5BUXDRNW \
  | 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: b34e674c428da356642ee03a1a5c716da0dbad6b3adc91414a1cbe5683735070

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d03ef0b9debbfb7039df14cc097b3b2334382d083f3af2e7d9329e45624a1ec9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th",
      "math-ph",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-03-28T20:46:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b8047dbc5195c417d0d55006bd60f65eefe3aecad2050e03eb9283219d731dd1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0203142",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}