Pith Number

pith:YAF6PASH

pith:2011:YAF6PASHZXGYRRKG77SYD6W34R

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Garden-Hose Model

Christian Schaffner, Florian Speelman, Harry Buhrman, Serge Fehr

arxiv:1109.2563 v3 · 2011-09-12 · quant-ph · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YAF6PASHZXGYRRKG77SYD6W34R}

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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	2026-05-18T01:33:58.940818Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c00be78247cdcd88c546ffe581fadbe47ff93ec0bf226cf224138bce407936a2

Aliases

arxiv: 1109.2563 · arxiv_version: 1109.2563v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1109.2563 · pith_short_12: YAF6PASHZXGY · pith_short_16: YAF6PASHZXGYRRKG · pith_short_8: YAF6PASH

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/YAF6PASHZXGYRRKG77SYD6W34R \
  | 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: c00be78247cdcd88c546ffe581fadbe47ff93ec0bf226cf224138bce407936a2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d0efbae90ca2c5f1fa049361ddb84fe13217021094576a637f3b5a2718d701c6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-09-12T18:42:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f8f1cbe919883a7c2afd42a6766b8c45538a6149a8d75e669628b736ad36918d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1109.2563",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}