Pith Number

pith:NKBDLPQK

pith:2012:NKBDLPQKF6BO2LBUX4ZSAZ7U2P

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True photo-counting statistics of multiple on-off detectors

G. S. Agarwal, J. Sperling, W. Vogel

arxiv:1202.5106 v1 · 2012-02-23 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NKBDLPQKF6BO2LBUX4ZSAZ7U2P}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:58:20.486837Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6a8235be0a2f82ed2c34bf332067f4d3d7e6ca36d70b7d189a4a693035978586

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.5106 · arxiv_version: 1202.5106v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.5106 · pith_short_12: NKBDLPQKF6BO · pith_short_16: NKBDLPQKF6BO2LBU · pith_short_8: NKBDLPQK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NKBDLPQKF6BO2LBUX4ZSAZ7U2P \
  | 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: 6a8235be0a2f82ed2c34bf332067f4d3d7e6ca36d70b7d189a4a693035978586

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e426d04df2cbde2f865aafa04be9b2744aae729ac3272f3ae0ad461e4c69727a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-23T08:11:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "54247b20c74628c16bad3618daf3e6284a9fdf14c11b71f83927f4c48b2e2a27"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.5106",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}