Pith Number

pith:ZYSL557Z

pith:2005:ZYSL557ZIZSU6G2FQJ77XMBSQK

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The Communication Complexity of the Hamming Distance Problem

Shengyu Zhang, Wei Huang, Yaoyun Shi, Yufan Zhu

arxiv:quant-ph/0509181 v3 · 2005-09-26 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZYSL557ZIZSU6G2FQJ77XMBSQK}

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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	2026-05-18T04:09:36.516665Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ce24bef7f946654f1b45827ffbb03282819cb0fba7cfe29756da4caee98c78af

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0509181 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0509181v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0509181 · pith_short_12: ZYSL557ZIZSU · pith_short_16: ZYSL557ZIZSU6G2F · pith_short_8: ZYSL557Z

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZYSL557ZIZSU6G2FQJ77XMBSQK \
  | 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: ce24bef7f946654f1b45827ffbb03282819cb0fba7cfe29756da4caee98c78af

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1dd23ebdef3668e761980969b4009b8150a2f9aded28c26b75c5fcccdd2949a8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-09-26T19:44:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ade635f05454fd1b550446025211cbebcc9d748351bee4d3f89923aa76cfce0f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0509181",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}