Pith Number

pith:Y76774M4

pith:2011:Y76774M4WUHDC7XGUH24EMYZSR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the role of a priori knowledge in the optimization of quantum information processing

Dewen Hu, Hong-Yi Dai, Ming Zhang, Min Lin, S. G. Schirmer, Zongtan Zhou

arxiv:1106.5134 v1 · 2011-06-25 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y76774M4WUHDC7XGUH24EMYZSR}

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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	2026-05-18T04:19:14.263173Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c7fdfff19cb50e317ee6a1f5c2331994688853931f43e705e828af15ac886f40

Aliases

arxiv: 1106.5134 · arxiv_version: 1106.5134v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1106.5134 · pith_short_12: Y76774M4WUHD · pith_short_16: Y76774M4WUHDC7XG · pith_short_8: Y76774M4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Y76774M4WUHDC7XGUH24EMYZSR \
  | 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: c7fdfff19cb50e317ee6a1f5c2331994688853931f43e705e828af15ac886f40

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2c8baf71e828acfec8af1b06bb3ef6c3a7408d4e7815e3f1ddf24e5c88c8780b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-06-25T14:09:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1799d3c44d1746468e61a57fa193dfcde738ce0ca9683526b5138c58f92a0946"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1106.5134",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}