Pith Number

pith:YKMZSBN5

pith:2011:YKMZSBN5T4PVCLYY4BSRUSK3VZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Dynamics of encrypted information in the presence of imperfect operations

Nasser Metwally

arxiv:1105.0787 v1 · 2011-05-04 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YKMZSBN5T4PVCLYY4BSRUSK3VZ}

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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	2026-05-18T02:02:09.054389Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c2999905bd9f1f512f18e0651a495bae57d3edd63efdad2185c6d83ed53e64cb

Aliases

arxiv: 1105.0787 · arxiv_version: 1105.0787v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1105.0787 · pith_short_12: YKMZSBN5T4PV · pith_short_16: YKMZSBN5T4PVCLYY · pith_short_8: YKMZSBN5

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/YKMZSBN5T4PVCLYY4BSRUSK3VZ \
  | 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: c2999905bd9f1f512f18e0651a495bae57d3edd63efdad2185c6d83ed53e64cb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1c31d6401b8ed98f9f5c475cf253c76926b466c9854215af028f26dc6140f469",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-05-04T10:36:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a3d235fd45d610fbfc8798cec1b8e27d6da85e0cb25dc038e71e00d1b26a058c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1105.0787",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}