Pith Number

pith:ZIRQN7MK

pith:2017:ZIRQN7MKXMMBTAFRFYT2MSYJKL

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Faster Methods for Contracting Infinite 2D Tensor Networks

F. Verstraete, J. Haegeman, L. Vanderstraeten, M.T. Fishman, V. Zauner-Stauber

arxiv:1711.05881 v2 · 2017-11-16 · cond-mat.str-el · quant-ph

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:57:10.561267Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ca2306fd8abb181980b12e27a64b0952fd0f3f169639aa82c18350efe34253ab

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.05881 · arxiv_version: 1711.05881v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.05881 · pith_short_12: ZIRQN7MKXMMB · pith_short_16: ZIRQN7MKXMMBTAFR · pith_short_8: ZIRQN7MK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZIRQN7MKXMMBTAFRFYT2MSYJKL \
  | 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: ca2306fd8abb181980b12e27a64b0952fd0f3f169639aa82c18350efe34253ab

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.str-el",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-16T01:23:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f0fda455415cdc9451f73a1dccd9462fca049c2c7e0ee71757dcd9bed006f6a4"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
}