Pith Number

pith:YGCIMJYC

pith:2018:YGCIMJYCMEVZK34WAH32FHLZ3B

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Quantum computation is the unique reversible circuit model for which bits are balls

Marius Krumm, Markus P. Mueller

arxiv:1804.05736 v3 · 2018-04-16 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YGCIMJYCMEVZK34WAH32FHLZ3B}

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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	2026-05-17T23:55:20.979601Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c184862702612b956f9601f7a29d79d84468bb0d9d51cf423cf06b7ceb523016

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.05736 · arxiv_version: 1804.05736v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.05736 · pith_short_12: YGCIMJYCMEVZ · pith_short_16: YGCIMJYCMEVZK34W · pith_short_8: YGCIMJYC

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/YGCIMJYCMEVZK34WAH32FHLZ3B \
  | 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: c184862702612b956f9601f7a29d79d84468bb0d9d51cf423cf06b7ceb523016

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e4328b8955ca383c6db2aa7b6f4ff6ffca643f115433e69d2806586e2a136f95",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-16T15:28:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1e55cbfb867c1ddda64eb4b91157086bf6fd1501710f2fadab5d0d650294651a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.05736",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}