Pith Number

pith:32T4DIZI

pith:1997:32T4DIZIMEBTHUCIXEN4IXUICY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: Many Worlds or Many Words?

Max Tegmark (IAS)

arxiv:quant-ph/9709032 v1 · 1997-09-15 · quant-ph · gr-qc · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{32T4DIZIMEBTHUCIXEN4IXUICY}

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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	2026-05-18T01:37:53.102554Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dea7c1a328610333d048b91bc45e88162cc0eb8f8918bb3c37ccd9f4abe7c663

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9709032 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9709032v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9709032 · pith_short_12: 32T4DIZIMEBT · pith_short_16: 32T4DIZIMEBTHUCI · pith_short_8: 32T4DIZI

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/32T4DIZIMEBTHUCIXEN4IXUICY \
  | 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: dea7c1a328610333d048b91bc45e88162cc0eb8f8918bb3c37ccd9f4abe7c663

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e0dbd2c351b777724b0933e773db85db9024e20caa635d18bd3f35c1e01fcd6d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-09-15T23:19:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1807baf0b2a034dfdad70225fb697e0aa3d8d6c6704e0d127a98ea6b9b79dbaa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9709032",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}