Pith Number

pith:XDYW37BF

pith:2018:XDYW37BFPYJFRD7BSPAKVMGXC4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Tradeoff relations between accessible information, informational power, and purity

Francesco Buscemi, Michele Dall'Arno

arxiv:1801.05185 v2 · 2018-01-16 · 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{XDYW37BFPYJFRD7BSPAKVMGXC4}

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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	2026-05-17T23:44:22.778737Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b8f16dfc257e12588fe193c0aab0d717198e232d78d4bbdecae007023b1d1744

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.05185 · arxiv_version: 1801.05185v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.05185 · pith_short_12: XDYW37BFPYJF · pith_short_16: XDYW37BFPYJFRD7B · pith_short_8: XDYW37BF

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/XDYW37BFPYJFRD7BSPAKVMGXC4 \
  | 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: b8f16dfc257e12588fe193c0aab0d717198e232d78d4bbdecae007023b1d1744

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1d40ff46491a911da59561db29630d5d1bd30b0c83c1c35e5f5539b9002ae338",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-16T09:55:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "10a90f65c95b00d7dfe136a1e4f9bbc4b5ec9ce29836705a7a08c113c8fbbc53"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.05185",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}