Pith Number

pith:QSFW3KCQ

pith:2010:QSFW3KCQQU6XPI7BVVMFEPL3QO

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Fast quantum algorithms for traversing paths of eigenstates

E. Knill, R.D. Somma, S. Boixo

arxiv:1005.3034 v1 · 2010-05-17 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QSFW3KCQQU6XPI7BVVMFEPL3QO}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:23:56.722140Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

848b6da850853d77a3e1ad58523d7b839bdc00433259e8bafab062fbac42dacd

Aliases

arxiv: 1005.3034 · arxiv_version: 1005.3034v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1005.3034 · pith_short_12: QSFW3KCQQU6X · pith_short_16: QSFW3KCQQU6XPI7B · pith_short_8: QSFW3KCQ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QSFW3KCQQU6XPI7BVVMFEPL3QO \
  | 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: 848b6da850853d77a3e1ad58523d7b839bdc00433259e8bafab062fbac42dacd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "801908fff3281a8ad68d933b7986204e473a05d40fcf822150a9b4f03a939afd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-05-17T20:17:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "67a9f37966b79973d267a9c9751411896b217b683471d2a936ae8760aed8ba4a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1005.3034",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}