Pith Number

pith:C4B4GV7T

pith:2017:C4B4GV7THE5FATUIKS7WTAXJZN

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Topological Quantum Computation with Gapped Boundaries and Boundary Defects

Iris Cong, Zhenghan Wang

arxiv:1710.07197 v1 · 2017-10-19 · quant-ph · math-ph · math.MP · math.QA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C4B4GV7THE5FATUIKS7WTAXJZN}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T00:32:26.654337Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1703c357f3393a504e8854bf6982e9cb7cc404e77b3422767924be2bea709057

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.07197 · arxiv_version: 1710.07197v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.07197 · pith_short_12: C4B4GV7THE5F · pith_short_16: C4B4GV7THE5FATUI · pith_short_8: C4B4GV7T

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/C4B4GV7THE5FATUIKS7WTAXJZN \
  | 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: 1703c357f3393a504e8854bf6982e9cb7cc404e77b3422767924be2bea709057

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "07308cefe3bfc31ac9f3f2a5e9e8b362526b42a29e2486d74214dbf2beaa742f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math-ph",
      "math.MP",
      "math.QA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-19T15:45:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b716de4e13ac967b9cab19dcf969a2e77aedd2cd8ea20a6ae7211202bfb39d5f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.07197",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}