Pith Number

pith:YTOCPVQG

pith:2018:YTOCPVQG2MR7RLUKH2AWIU75JG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum-state comparison and discrimination

A. Hayashi, M. Horibe, T. Hashimoto

arxiv:1803.09030 v2 · 2018-03-24 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YTOCPVQG2MR7RLUKH2AWIU75JG}

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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	2026-05-18T00:14:46.016913Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c4dc27d606d323f8ae8a3e816453fd49bdd5e9fabc27f06eca39c782cebc2e4b

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.09030 · arxiv_version: 1803.09030v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.09030 · pith_short_12: YTOCPVQG2MR7 · pith_short_16: YTOCPVQG2MR7RLUK · pith_short_8: YTOCPVQG

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/YTOCPVQG2MR7RLUKH2AWIU75JG \
  | 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: c4dc27d606d323f8ae8a3e816453fd49bdd5e9fabc27f06eca39c782cebc2e4b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f5d5f01bbe0faed8a3d560e1940db84bd37ad1b9e75a7a5a655030c129ee7937",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-24T01:34:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "80f36052b7b2ee234096e24243f5daf0c996a9ed84b8165c2f0c2cb215c7f30d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.09030",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}