Pith Number

pith:2ZWDPUN5

pith:2005:2ZWDPUN5LHK547F7HFNSOAQYRJ

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Kindergarten Quantum Mechanics

Bob Coecke

arxiv:quant-ph/0510032 v1 · 2005-10-04 · quant-ph · math.CT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2ZWDPUN5LHK547F7HFNSOAQYRJ}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:05:02.736147Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d66c37d1bd59d5de7cbf395b2702188a4d9191e8813ae7697975fcb140f6e496

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0510032 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0510032v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0510032 · pith_short_12: 2ZWDPUN5LHK5 · pith_short_16: 2ZWDPUN5LHK547F7 · pith_short_8: 2ZWDPUN5

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/2ZWDPUN5LHK547F7HFNSOAQYRJ \
  | 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: d66c37d1bd59d5de7cbf395b2702188a4d9191e8813ae7697975fcb140f6e496

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cdc21013900919c0db8a7bede23325c866bbdddcc3ea864486ad3efc44fd17a1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.CT"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-10-04T15:53:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "445e72038cf7fc68bca0caa3bbeead42f2df4798884b310beaf39d17aed807d2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0510032",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}