Pith Number

pith:RU5JSY5F

pith:2015:RU5JSY5FL26OQDRLAR7GG543RB

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Free-space quantum key distribution to a moving receiver

Brendon L. Higgins, Catherine Holloway, Christopher J. Pugh, Jean-Philippe Bourgoin, Miles Cranmer, Nick Gigov, Sarah Kaiser, Thomas Jennewein

arxiv:1505.00292 v2 · 2015-05-01 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RU5JSY5FL26OQDRLAR7GG543RB}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:24:10.848902Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8d3a9963a55ebce80e2b047e63779b885b890c7cf0a16b4ebe8e94f7d9b3abd6

Aliases

arxiv: 1505.00292 · arxiv_version: 1505.00292v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1505.00292 · pith_short_12: RU5JSY5FL26O · pith_short_16: RU5JSY5FL26OQDRL · pith_short_8: RU5JSY5F

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/RU5JSY5FL26OQDRLAR7GG543RB \
  | 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: 8d3a9963a55ebce80e2b047e63779b885b890c7cf0a16b4ebe8e94f7d9b3abd6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5be0a1af6ba34cb8f0c6bbfdb39b66548e9264c97148cc5ce1008dbc024dd01a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-05-01T22:49:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "72146e13000cb09dd061fff1ca12463d8ecf073b1192a734208462ef04dcd86f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1505.00292",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}