Pith Number

pith:TYUQCRDZ

pith:2017:TYUQCRDZYAVP4LH3SQHXNZGS4N

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Robert B. Griffiths

arxiv:1712.01895 v2 · 2017-12-05 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TYUQCRDZYAVP4LH3SQHXNZGS4N}

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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	2026-05-18T00:23:28.928130Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9e29014479c02afe2cfb940f76e4d2e35c24cf8572f16190a71418d848ee0713

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.01895 · arxiv_version: 1712.01895v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.01895 · pith_short_12: TYUQCRDZYAVP · pith_short_16: TYUQCRDZYAVP4LH3 · pith_short_8: TYUQCRDZ

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/TYUQCRDZYAVP4LH3SQHXNZGS4N \
  | 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: 9e29014479c02afe2cfb940f76e4d2e35c24cf8572f16190a71418d848ee0713

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "396c8bef4fdf6b5e82933f6e7e260a14eeeb533f9e4c9b1d4ac43b6d46509e92",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-05T20:04:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ec78e7843846d6e381a43edba74d0103ac75e5a814cb6f9b1f64cb4a45f87add"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.01895",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}