Pith Number

pith:RRNTUWZZ

pith:2017:RRNTUWZZDEVJUR7ZO774HJ234X

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Maximum coherence in the optimal basis

Heng Fan, Ming-Liang Hu, Shu-Qian Shen

arxiv:1707.09617 v4 · 2017-07-30 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RRNTUWZZDEVJUR7ZO774HJ234X}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:30:54.691250Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8c5b3a5b39192a9a47f977ffc3a75be5df13b2d4b2251f56de1d6be30b484e9a

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.09617 · arxiv_version: 1707.09617v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.09617 · pith_short_12: RRNTUWZZDEVJ · pith_short_16: RRNTUWZZDEVJUR7Z · pith_short_8: RRNTUWZZ

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/RRNTUWZZDEVJUR7ZO774HJ234X \
  | 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: 8c5b3a5b39192a9a47f977ffc3a75be5df13b2d4b2251f56de1d6be30b484e9a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "60a40f32d5abf041be488374cabea5b0e193654ad41ea87a4bea2191d0868712",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-30T13:19:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "37aa12f1a6d921b60301c4c1dfe6facc173c9be94c4c52abc888c2ff04887477"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.09617",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}