Pith Number

pith:MSXJGDKD

pith:2017:MSXJGDKDI4FBWVOXV3VMWCTY3U

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum Information: What Is It All About?

Robert B. Griffiths

arxiv:1710.08520 v2 · 2017-10-23 · 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{MSXJGDKDI4FBWVOXV3VMWCTY3U}

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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	2026-05-18T00:29:10.228025Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

64ae930d43470a1b55d7aeeacb0a78dd094c137286d781addb1f9fdf1a5702f2

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.08520 · arxiv_version: 1710.08520v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.08520 · pith_short_12: MSXJGDKDI4FB · pith_short_16: MSXJGDKDI4FBWVOX · pith_short_8: MSXJGDKD

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/MSXJGDKDI4FBWVOXV3VMWCTY3U \
  | 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: 64ae930d43470a1b55d7aeeacb0a78dd094c137286d781addb1f9fdf1a5702f2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c5734a2b24b6a73ef817c419415c3baca8f698d0b3bd9941c91f182cfbabe506",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-23T22:01:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7fd6f534f5859da2f76e9039cfd72a3cf89274d1b3d166217ae8609274914dc2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.08520",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}