Pith Number

pith:YAG3VEDZ

pith:2021:YAG3VEDZU4DME5LXWTJSCZCK5M

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Security bounds for decoy-state QKD with arbitrary photon-number statistics

Costantino Agnesi, Francesco Picciariello, Giulio Foletto, Giuseppe Vallone, Paolo Villoresi

arxiv:2109.13830 v1 · 2021-09-28 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YAG3VEDZU4DME5LXWTJSCZCK5M}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T03:49:19.875500Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c00dba9079a706c27577b4d321644aeb2e28ef777b1a33a02b543c1217f13cf9

Aliases

arxiv: 2109.13830 · arxiv_version: 2109.13830v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2109.13830 · pith_short_12: YAG3VEDZU4DM · pith_short_16: YAG3VEDZU4DME5LX · pith_short_8: YAG3VEDZ

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/YAG3VEDZU4DME5LXWTJSCZCK5M \
  | 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: c00dba9079a706c27577b4d321644aeb2e28ef777b1a33a02b543c1217f13cf9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cc8e0d1c5ff191ea34041e3357f0af78cb1e1e63890a0b34a5278ff8647d4811",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2021-09-28T15:59:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "830e926deda6922d74e3b45a8657824462af838cf60f780e30024b43b4db3ea4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2109.13830",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}