Pith Number

pith:IBT7LJI3

pith:2013:IBT7LJI3J2LKA7CYUKUHFXP7HW

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Decoding color codes by projection onto surface codes

Nicolas Delfosse

arxiv:1308.6207 v1 · 2013-08-28 · quant-ph · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IBT7LJI3J2LKA7CYUKUHFXP7HW}

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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	2026-05-18T03:01:35.532322Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4067f5a51b4e96a07c58a2a872ddff3d9cd66fa04c3f4200e7c0e7b851e7d1fb

Aliases

arxiv: 1308.6207 · arxiv_version: 1308.6207v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1308.6207 · pith_short_12: IBT7LJI3J2LK · pith_short_16: IBT7LJI3J2LKA7CY · pith_short_8: IBT7LJI3

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/IBT7LJI3J2LKA7CYUKUHFXP7HW \
  | 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: 4067f5a51b4e96a07c58a2a872ddff3d9cd66fa04c3f4200e7c0e7b851e7d1fb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a9f4b66e0c39cc244b2c3486c2dcbf0e8de7e894a1a34dc1bf09cccafdd4e02f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-08-28T16:31:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "73659e0351541b453dc00e1eee0fb60f96ad9086dacf7de746903f1ad483e4b6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1308.6207",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}