Pith Number

pith:27C7MSIK

pith:2006:27C7MSIKSJ4NDR5QF5WOXYADMY

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Ontological Models for Quantum Mechanics and the Kochen-Specker theorem

Terry Rudolph

arxiv:quant-ph/0608120 v1 · 2006-08-15 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{27C7MSIKSJ4NDR5QF5WOXYADMY}

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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	2026-07-04T14:56:45.262886Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d7c5f6490a9278d1c7b02f6cebe0036634f74ead8516807cf1daa0dbd4aa3b24

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0608120 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0608120v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0608120 · pith_short_12: 27C7MSIKSJ4N · pith_short_16: 27C7MSIKSJ4NDR5Q · pith_short_8: 27C7MSIK

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/27C7MSIKSJ4NDR5QF5WOXYADMY \
  | 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: d7c5f6490a9278d1c7b02f6cebe0036634f74ead8516807cf1daa0dbd4aa3b24

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0fc16632e4874fd4623fc26b5897a653ee86ba9b1f2c06d0bbc94798e98f90b9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-08-15T04:11:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c1616d9baf1e352d994e3237bbd223b0eb67ab295ab8ace6efa75e75821710a8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0608120",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}