Pith Number

pith:XVN3P5KA

pith:2016:XVN3P5KAETXSVB2AZGEP6L27CA

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Conservative classical and quantum resolution limits for incoherent imaging

Mankei Tsang

arxiv:1605.03799 v3 · 2016-05-12 · quant-ph · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XVN3P5KAETXSVB2AZGEP6L27CA}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:32:03.166645Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bd5bb7f54024ef2a8740c988ff2f5f10058d770b87bd532c95fe4e8798b9a0ed

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.03799 · arxiv_version: 1605.03799v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.03799 · pith_short_12: XVN3P5KAETXS · pith_short_16: XVN3P5KAETXSVB2A · pith_short_8: XVN3P5KA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XVN3P5KAETXSVB2AZGEP6L27CA \
  | 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: bd5bb7f54024ef2a8740c988ff2f5f10058d770b87bd532c95fe4e8798b9a0ed

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7fe4aba8e715cab327b27a78496ee979134e4cc50e637943f8bb8a6b42761187",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-12T13:18:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "070061c91df9b63a6b97cd5588359ed93aec05122407ae9d801bdbebc2dc5603"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1605.03799",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}