Pith Number

pith:Z7EUVU4E

pith:2011:Z7EUVU4ELKA77IFWYLYQ2PXU5X

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Efficient Decoding of Topological Color Codes

Pradeep Sarvepalli, Robert Raussendorf

arxiv:1111.0831 v1 · 2011-11-03 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z7EUVU4ELKA77IFWYLYQ2PXU5X}

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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	2026-05-18T04:02:13.402771Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cfc94ad3845a81ffa0b6c2f10d3ef4ede655aa9c86efdca35bbd6a7a325b1806

Aliases

arxiv: 1111.0831 · arxiv_version: 1111.0831v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1111.0831 · pith_short_12: Z7EUVU4ELKA7 · pith_short_16: Z7EUVU4ELKA77IFW · pith_short_8: Z7EUVU4E

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/Z7EUVU4ELKA77IFWYLYQ2PXU5X \
  | 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: cfc94ad3845a81ffa0b6c2f10d3ef4ede655aa9c86efdca35bbd6a7a325b1806

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b0a8dda896c3e60cd39d38c68c2f0dfb1f5ec6ef5b7cd3faca947146f9e3711d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-11-03T13:32:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "701e72129d8646af226b9b89932de9e8478aa03de8703266530685b028d0d973"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1111.0831",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}