Pith Number

pith:2HCNYE3P

pith:2008:2HCNYE3PC67PIQXNRY5ANO5VAW

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A simple method for the evaluation of the information content and complexity in atoms. A proposal for scalability

C.C. Tsouros, C.P. Panos, K.Ch. Chatzisavvas, N.S. Nikolaidis

arxiv:0812.3963 v1 · 2008-12-20 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2HCNYE3PC67PIQXNRY5ANO5VAW}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:15:04.188300Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d1c4dc136f17bef442ed8e3a06bbb505ad0e3cdbe654cb4796d929b4ed079053

Aliases

arxiv: 0812.3963 · arxiv_version: 0812.3963v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0812.3963 · pith_short_12: 2HCNYE3PC67P · pith_short_16: 2HCNYE3PC67PIQXN · pith_short_8: 2HCNYE3P

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/2HCNYE3PC67PIQXNRY5ANO5VAW \
  | 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: d1c4dc136f17bef442ed8e3a06bbb505ad0e3cdbe654cb4796d929b4ed079053

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "961b5050b71d0bd638b91d4d74ef736667670bb8e2f6abc9e97d29c9c5395603",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-12-20T13:11:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "98ba5e4631023883676453e9086ffd5b64509bb1789c5530675c2577335cb87d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0812.3963",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}