Pith Number

pith:ZNJFHDOV

pith:2016:ZNJFHDOVBJID5YVJOO5IR2I4JJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Process-theoretic characterisation of the Hermitian adjoint

Bob Coecke, John Selby

arxiv:1606.05086 v1 · 2016-06-16 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZNJFHDOVBJID5YVJOO5IR2I4JJ}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T01:12:22.055661Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cb52538dd50a503ee2a973ba88e91c4a558f7f7c90d447b0b8c194dc7df38151

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.05086 · arxiv_version: 1606.05086v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.05086 · pith_short_12: ZNJFHDOVBJID · pith_short_16: ZNJFHDOVBJID5YVJ · pith_short_8: ZNJFHDOV

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/ZNJFHDOVBJID5YVJOO5IR2I4JJ \
  | 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: cb52538dd50a503ee2a973ba88e91c4a558f7f7c90d447b0b8c194dc7df38151

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c749c350f79153ad200c1446a3e79eea91bc58593a3251a95ec9bee50c252ac8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-16T08:14:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1885811f9ecb7a0d9660f0138db6ece43febcf424806ac500e40be9c6b65c589"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.05086",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}