Pith Number

pith:YHYWCRCY

pith:2021:YHYWCRCY62MMDLZLTGCK2UUPID

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Cryptography from Pseudorandom Quantum States

Henry Yuen, Luowen Qian, Prabhanjan Ananth

arxiv:2112.10020 v2 · 2021-12-18 · quant-ph · cs.CC · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YHYWCRCY62MMDLZLTGCK2UUPID}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

On the Complexity of Quantum States and Circuits from the Orthogonal and Symplectic Groups

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T04:05:15.763987Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c1f1614458f698c1af2b9984ad528f40f62db1f3b909f65037ba682dc6420049

Aliases

arxiv: 2112.10020 · arxiv_version: 2112.10020v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2112.10020 · pith_short_12: YHYWCRCY62MM · pith_short_16: YHYWCRCY62MMDLZL · pith_short_8: YHYWCRCY

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/YHYWCRCY62MMDLZLTGCK2UUPID \
  | 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: c1f1614458f698c1af2b9984ad528f40f62db1f3b909f65037ba682dc6420049

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "529a38fa58602f9cb9d2d5da951bf07b4921a99f598faa8c76f9f6690a925671",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC",
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2021-12-18T22:53:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b7809e699ad2b939b16817c9d1e1dfe61a75a02101322de601a397b51834809b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2112.10020",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}