Pith Number

pith:ZLCF4YEE

pith:2016:ZLCF4YEE5JNSVCVU7GUKWLUIA5

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A finite alternation result for reversible boolean circuits

Peter Selinger

arxiv:1604.02549 v3 · 2016-04-09 · cs.ET · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZLCF4YEE5JNSVCVU7GUKWLUIA5}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:12:25.282070Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cac45e6084ea5b2a8ab4f9a8ab2e88074c9319544ff16d17b0d20674a913b961

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.02549 · arxiv_version: 1604.02549v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.02549 · pith_short_12: ZLCF4YEE5JNS · pith_short_16: ZLCF4YEE5JNSVCVU · pith_short_8: ZLCF4YEE

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/ZLCF4YEE5JNSVCVU7GUKWLUIA5 \
  | 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: cac45e6084ea5b2a8ab4f9a8ab2e88074c9319544ff16d17b0d20674a913b961

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f46e4ced43c59f7056ae6bc32acd255ca65431711a503c0171555392e98d097c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.ET",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-09T10:35:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "52c2d35f236574b921d152fe122dd98db2913a0534a48e814729dc6b37319288"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.02549",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}