Pith Number

pith:3ZUVLNKH

pith:2006:3ZUVLNKH5LZV3Z454Q2BBUJE5I

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A random walk approach to quantum algorithms

Viv Kendon

arxiv:quant-ph/0609035 v1 · 2006-09-05 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3ZUVLNKH5LZV3Z454Q2BBUJE5I}

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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	2026-07-04T14:56:46.213558Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

de6955b547eaf35de79de43410d124ea3050a0e5f62de73735d5345b6fb0988a

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0609035 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0609035v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0609035 · pith_short_12: 3ZUVLNKH5LZV · pith_short_16: 3ZUVLNKH5LZV3Z45 · pith_short_8: 3ZUVLNKH

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/3ZUVLNKH5LZV3Z454Q2BBUJE5I \
  | 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: de6955b547eaf35de79de43410d124ea3050a0e5f62de73735d5345b6fb0988a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1b55874d5eed9339bc9983a5719a3645ed1ef5e92c67a7f9e86cac41c43b95c8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-09-05T19:09:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ee7d4b13ea47b80811a30e7342ba0ef8fafbbba82e47b6ef2ac2516349d85448"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0609035",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}