Pith Number

pith:XOVQE3M3

pith:2017:XOVQE3M3OIJUOGR5NN37D52EMF

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Maximum and minimum entropy states yielding local continuity bounds

Eric P. Hanson, Nilanjana Datta

arxiv:1706.02212 v2 · 2017-06-07 · quant-ph · math-ph · math.MP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XOVQE3M3OIJUOGR5NN37D52EMF}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T00:01:47.463142Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bbab026d9b7213471a3d6b77f1f74461752dd2a5ad67e04c6be919b3e4e5b8a0

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.02212 · arxiv_version: 1706.02212v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.02212 · pith_short_12: XOVQE3M3OIJU · pith_short_16: XOVQE3M3OIJUOGR5 · pith_short_8: XOVQE3M3

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/XOVQE3M3OIJUOGR5NN37D52EMF \
  | 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: bbab026d9b7213471a3d6b77f1f74461752dd2a5ad67e04c6be919b3e4e5b8a0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "659347b2302845a0fff5b60545d422b42802f3a0c8647ee6d10b56c5c75a6232",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math-ph",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-07T14:32:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7851c594ab760206a05ca7ffcda30ee4abd43a54c7ff8ae0f266061d66db2abf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.02212",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}