Pith Number

pith:2LD6AVRC

pith:2014:2LD6AVRCTJQDCWG7KW4M7KKG3E

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Communication complexity and the reality of the wave-function

Alberto Montina

arxiv:1412.1723 v2 · 2014-12-04 · quant-ph · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2LD6AVRCTJQDCWG7KW4M7KKG3E}

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Record completeness

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:29:24.651094Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d2c7e056229a603158df55b8cfa946d914bc9e0f9b01a6236428b0b03b6ee60c

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.1723 · arxiv_version: 1412.1723v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.1723 · pith_short_12: 2LD6AVRCTJQD · pith_short_16: 2LD6AVRCTJQDCWG7 · pith_short_8: 2LD6AVRC

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/2LD6AVRCTJQDCWG7KW4M7KKG3E \
  | 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: d2c7e056229a603158df55b8cfa946d914bc9e0f9b01a6236428b0b03b6ee60c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "63672cfe2321404422e43da6f79b720669bf260791c27c269a5ce70a08abc514",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-04T16:42:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e07c647af8931b142e30f04b84fc35f64d4661b1c0c45a3a65491ec83dc44cdb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.1723",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}