Pith Number

pith:2X7MRT7C

pith:2014:2X7MRT7C3EIX4UBBKFBWS3RSJW

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The Problem of Motion: The Statistical Mechanics of Zitterbewegung

Kevin H. Knuth

arxiv:1411.1854 v2 · 2014-11-07 · quant-ph · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2X7MRT7C3EIX4UBBKFBWS3RSJW}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T01:41:34.127786Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d5fec8cfe2d9117e50215143696e324dbee39d446df478ff6dd8c9f6768301f6

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.1854 · arxiv_version: 1411.1854v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.1854 · pith_short_12: 2X7MRT7C3EIX · pith_short_16: 2X7MRT7C3EIX4UBB · pith_short_8: 2X7MRT7C

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2X7MRT7C3EIX4UBBKFBWS3RSJW \
  | 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: d5fec8cfe2d9117e50215143696e324dbee39d446df478ff6dd8c9f6768301f6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6a1f9141548f81ac05f7460c023cf8f1fd2e2f7bd221c61bdc4bc1648cf3beab",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-07T08:28:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1669cd92509815265944ced8836c70ed92f5fb8f41b4a0b245480ddba5887b7c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.1854",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}