Pith Number

pith:6AFUAEYJ

pith:2017:6AFUAEYJZRBQPN3R3UWQG6F2UO

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A resource theory of quantum memories and their faithful verification with minimal assumptions

Denis Rosset, Francesco Buscemi, Yeong-Cherng Liang

arxiv:1710.04710 v2 · 2017-10-12 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6AFUAEYJZRBQPN3R3UWQG6F2UO}

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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	2026-05-18T00:16:03.000705Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f00b401309cc4307b771dd2d0378baa386e76060077f03988c34ce6e765edf02

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.04710 · arxiv_version: 1710.04710v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.04710 · pith_short_12: 6AFUAEYJZRBQ · pith_short_16: 6AFUAEYJZRBQPN3R · pith_short_8: 6AFUAEYJ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6AFUAEYJZRBQPN3R3UWQG6F2UO \
  | 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: f00b401309cc4307b771dd2d0378baa386e76060077f03988c34ce6e765edf02

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "19666c5281841d3d82909f824a1e6138907d2a5d81a4374b40067ce6d94c0bac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-12T20:32:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "52dbd95cb0fe064c3fd7dbaad65770219aeba056c5a073680fbbc7560b3bdca9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.04710",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}