Pith Number

pith:AARZOLW5

pith:2015:AARZOLW5GMI6JUFKUJOFIWRNKK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Completely Device Independent Quantum Key Distribution

E. A. Aguilar, J. Kofler, M. Pawlowski, R. Ramanathan

arxiv:1507.05752 v2 · 2015-07-21 · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AARZOLW5GMI6JUFKUJOFIWRNKK}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:09:36.583337Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0023972edd3311e4d0aaa25c545a2d5281770b5d5269cc244fb11005c00a32bd

Aliases

arxiv: 1507.05752 · arxiv_version: 1507.05752v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1507.05752 · pith_short_12: AARZOLW5GMI6 · pith_short_16: AARZOLW5GMI6JUFK · pith_short_8: AARZOLW5

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/AARZOLW5GMI6JUFKUJOFIWRNKK \
  | 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: 0023972edd3311e4d0aaa25c545a2d5281770b5d5269cc244fb11005c00a32bd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7dfdc9a2bbc6955cd90d15f851eef4e62b9b0f8a3c380dee849d28891678c99d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-07-21T08:55:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "016d15e2f3ecff7e249167bd29ddd22f97bbeb80d1ccdf3629a6908dae2133de"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1507.05752",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}