Pith Number

pith:2GPL36D2

pith:2010:2GPL36D2ZQ7QTX6YZ6LH7USP63

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Interpreting Quantum Particles as Conceptual Entities

Diederik Aerts

arxiv:1004.2531 v1 · 2010-04-15 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2GPL36D2ZQ7QTX6YZ6LH7USP63}

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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	2026-05-18T04:22:11.515006Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d19ebdf87acc3f09dfd8cf967fd24ff6fa3d42ceaac5ea410004be992d61df33

Aliases

arxiv: 1004.2531 · arxiv_version: 1004.2531v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1004.2531 · pith_short_12: 2GPL36D2ZQ7Q · pith_short_16: 2GPL36D2ZQ7QTX6Y · pith_short_8: 2GPL36D2

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/2GPL36D2ZQ7QTX6YZ6LH7USP63 \
  | 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: d19ebdf87acc3f09dfd8cf967fd24ff6fa3d42ceaac5ea410004be992d61df33

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fd05031d0d04a5aeda516c5036dcb5795634c6783f73e0b7c689b9b809136382",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-04-15T00:36:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a88f4a78602c614c3dcd24a9ca0aa1e50648a99f8d1ded8f89a0d0bf48864302"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1004.2531",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}