Pith Number

pith:X2PRPXGN

pith:2009:X2PRPXGNSYJV2GKM6LKBKR3PZC

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An Introduction to Quantum Error Correction and Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation

Daniel Gottesman

arxiv:0904.2557 v1 · 2009-04-16 · quant-ph

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17 papers in Pith

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Geometrical constructions of purity testing protocols and their applications to quantum communication

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First computed	2026-07-04T15:41:19.460069Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

be9f17dccd96135d194cf2d415476fc8adafc50590e9434a2670d75c9701e6a3

Aliases

arxiv: 0904.2557 · arxiv_version: 0904.2557v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0904.2557 · pith_short_12: X2PRPXGNSYJV · pith_short_16: X2PRPXGNSYJV2GKM · pith_short_8: X2PRPXGN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/X2PRPXGNSYJV2GKM6LKBKR3PZC \
  | 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: be9f17dccd96135d194cf2d415476fc8adafc50590e9434a2670d75c9701e6a3

Canonical record JSON

{
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2009-04-16T18:40:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1f424a3c79f9dcd0ffe1c88cb03d2b724b88f3da3a6699c160fdb07a0ee2bdc7"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "0904.2557",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}