Pith Number

pith:2PXRLPWN

pith:2009:2PXRLPWNLKI7PFIJZ47SHTX6TO

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The Theory of (Exclusively) Local Beables

Travis Norsen

arxiv:0909.4553 v3 · 2009-09-24 · quant-ph · physics.hist-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2PXRLPWNLKI7PFIJZ47SHTX6TO}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:11:37.869296Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d3ef15becd5a91f79509cf3f23cefe9b918d44fcdf8f813fc904937385478747

Aliases

arxiv: 0909.4553 · arxiv_version: 0909.4553v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0909.4553 · pith_short_12: 2PXRLPWNLKI7 · pith_short_16: 2PXRLPWNLKI7PFIJ · pith_short_8: 2PXRLPWN

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/2PXRLPWNLKI7PFIJZ47SHTX6TO \
  | 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: d3ef15becd5a91f79509cf3f23cefe9b918d44fcdf8f813fc904937385478747

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "471995030db273d2451c3bd93d2c37779e7ba1c35be0503bc32d96cdfd183283",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.hist-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2009-09-24T21:11:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f4bb0d05ab81b60a793574b0aa18017eaa8a0b35b653e0c9ca53b8a468dca56e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0909.4553",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}