Pith Number

pith:WVW6TK54

pith:2014:WVW6TK54RCU7AOZHY5SAMLYAQ6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Recognizing how some states are built, from mixed states to singlets

Charles Tresser, Enrique Pujals

arxiv:1406.3549 v2 · 2014-06-13 · 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{WVW6TK54RCU7AOZHY5SAMLYAQ6}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T02:25:34.105804Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b56de9abbc88a9f03b27c764062f008786605d87a1211c88a2749afea42b3214

Aliases

arxiv: 1406.3549 · arxiv_version: 1406.3549v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.3549 · pith_short_12: WVW6TK54RCU7 · pith_short_16: WVW6TK54RCU7AOZH · pith_short_8: WVW6TK54

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/WVW6TK54RCU7AOZHY5SAMLYAQ6 \
  | 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: b56de9abbc88a9f03b27c764062f008786605d87a1211c88a2749afea42b3214

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "da47b61a0aef20df8f9052bc7af37edc17df1f66a379237673e308443f80322d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-06-13T14:34:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b713b729d747d929857ec7b0f0aa203c33c3b8f2ae58ce0ccd90d824483c6fd2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1406.3549",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}