Pith Number

pith:2BL723ZQ

pith:2017:2BL723ZQNPEFWGQ4GHKT33GDFS

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Physics Without Physics: The Power of Information-theoretical Principles

Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano

arxiv:1701.06309 v1 · 2017-01-23 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2BL723ZQNPEFWGQ4GHKT33GDFS}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:52:18.703453Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d057fd6f306bc85b1a1c31d53decc32c8bb0060b4a03fa264d303b848e790992

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.06309 · arxiv_version: 1701.06309v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.06309 · pith_short_12: 2BL723ZQNPEF · pith_short_16: 2BL723ZQNPEFWGQ4 · pith_short_8: 2BL723ZQ

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/2BL723ZQNPEFWGQ4GHKT33GDFS \
  | 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: d057fd6f306bc85b1a1c31d53decc32c8bb0060b4a03fa264d303b848e790992

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bf6ac8d6f239dcc6ac14b8c453873e5f1861ae5f9689849fdbc4ae2b7e5813e2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-23T09:41:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c0af08ec4856398ffc0dda7e07155697f97af24f57169e42b7d99fca4133f2f7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.06309",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}