Pith Number

pith:IWLOIDCK

pith:1997:IWLOIDCKQZVMC4D45G5ZOH5FMK

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Error correction for continuous quantum variables

Bangor, Samuel L. Braunstein (SEECS, UK), University of Wales

arxiv:quant-ph/9711049 v1 · 1997-11-21 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IWLOIDCKQZVMC4D45G5ZOH5FMK}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:17:25.697170Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4596e40c4a866ac1707ce9bb971fa562b1cc49ee2b62811e98cfca8afd569c15

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9711049 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9711049v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9711049 · pith_short_12: IWLOIDCKQZVM · pith_short_16: IWLOIDCKQZVMC4D4 · pith_short_8: IWLOIDCK

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/IWLOIDCKQZVMC4D45G5ZOH5FMK \
  | 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: 4596e40c4a866ac1707ce9bb971fa562b1cc49ee2b62811e98cfca8afd569c15

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e46df778b37be614ddfbdcb2619d6aa9ee843372ac21e927a2b7c657fcdce94f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-11-21T00:40:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f508c64bab887651eb1dc04ee3dc7d7b7b6e1b6f34f017e1f3fb6639347be981"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9711049",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}