Pith Number

pith:ZLMNZ6Y6

pith:1995:ZLMNZ6Y6BUIULQEKQMCAXVDMRL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Prime Factorization and Discrete Logarithms on a Quantum Computer

Peter W. Shor (AT&T Research)

arxiv:quant-ph/9508027 v2 · 1995-08-30 · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZLMNZ6Y6BUIULQEKQMCAXVDMRL}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

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.

Cited by

3 papers in Pith

The Physical and Contextual Limits of Quantum Speedup

The Heisenberg Representation of Quantum Computers

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:50:31.502398Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cad8dcfb1e0d1145c08a83040bd46c8ae1bdf13852a09ec3c8fb2288dd508875

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9508027 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9508027v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9508027 · pith_short_12: ZLMNZ6Y6BUIU · pith_short_16: ZLMNZ6Y6BUIULQEK · pith_short_8: ZLMNZ6Y6

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/ZLMNZ6Y6BUIULQEKQMCAXVDMRL \
  | 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: cad8dcfb1e0d1145c08a83040bd46c8ae1bdf13852a09ec3c8fb2288dd508875

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "245a91909f4fa01e4bf07c0aa587639e46bd0bf67794a41f48cf771356d13d4d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1995-08-30T14:11:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d8fe5f350321096e82ab127d847b069624995d67479f85be05ec041e12360149"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9508027",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}