Pith Number

pith:YACNJKSM

pith:2010:YACNJKSMFYHKPWYNP6BM34JFJG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum processes

Jeroen Wouters, Mark Fannes

arxiv:1005.3177 v1 · 2010-05-18 · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YACNJKSMFYHKPWYNP6BM34JFJG}

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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	2026-05-18T00:37:05.562794Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c004d4aa4c2e0ea7db0d7f82cdf1254999cebf73a5c0e4438b243cd07fab0737

Aliases

arxiv: 1005.3177 · arxiv_version: 1005.3177v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1005.3177 · pith_short_12: YACNJKSMFYHK · pith_short_16: YACNJKSMFYHKPWYN · pith_short_8: YACNJKSM

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/YACNJKSMFYHKPWYNP6BM34JFJG \
  | 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: c004d4aa4c2e0ea7db0d7f82cdf1254999cebf73a5c0e4438b243cd07fab0737

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b8d91869034fbefec39359b3161a9d23a780580503cec850ff94041b3e48040f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-05-18T12:49:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9adbe9397406aaff3879c51a3fe9dad8700df108df55846b2ff017e9f82c7d78"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1005.3177",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}