Pith Number

pith:Y6UP7ADP

pith:2012:Y6UP7ADPEQ5YVTN2YEJPQZA7GF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

1/2+1/2>1 for quantum error correction

C.H. Oh, Heng Fan, Sixia Yu, Zhuo Wang

arxiv:1208.6529 v1 · 2012-08-31 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y6UP7ADPEQ5YVTN2YEJPQZA7GF}

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5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T03:46:32.723770Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c7a8ff806f243b8acdbac112f8641f316c62c144935ace458f54e05c78026fbb

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.6529 · arxiv_version: 1208.6529v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.6529 · pith_short_12: Y6UP7ADPEQ5Y · pith_short_16: Y6UP7ADPEQ5YVTN2 · pith_short_8: Y6UP7ADP

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/Y6UP7ADPEQ5YVTN2YEJPQZA7GF \
  | 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: c7a8ff806f243b8acdbac112f8641f316c62c144935ace458f54e05c78026fbb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7519461cb7d9213645006fa90defbd4551736612ee7010a8a566547c058b057e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-31T15:30:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2c7fa003f3066ed1b89b628dcbbd774f046707d5007498ebb786461afadec28d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.6529",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}