Pith Number

pith:Y7BAYDP2

pith:2010:Y7BAYDP2H3YFWAPP2VY7B5OCRC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Qubit-string-based bit commitment protocols with physical security

Bao Li, Chong Xiang, Li Yang

arxiv:1011.5099 v3 · 2010-11-23 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y7BAYDP2H3YFWAPP2VY7B5OCRC}

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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	2026-05-18T03:52:15.136667Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c7c20c0dfa3ef05b01efd571f0f5c288ad778031bfbf563ef8993ca623f0b23f

Aliases

arxiv: 1011.5099 · arxiv_version: 1011.5099v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1011.5099 · pith_short_12: Y7BAYDP2H3YF · pith_short_16: Y7BAYDP2H3YFWAPP · pith_short_8: Y7BAYDP2

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/Y7BAYDP2H3YFWAPP2VY7B5OCRC \
  | 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: c7c20c0dfa3ef05b01efd571f0f5c288ad778031bfbf563ef8993ca623f0b23f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f60f453ee9f3f4e1869bd6ef5ba0314a54080f620c1d5e10e169e3ab07e2ff15",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-11-23T13:54:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6adf4d033c98593d7028ad7060456876efd59d800099a31d636d9c36e924b592"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1011.5099",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}