Pith Number

pith:3JVDA725

pith:2010:3JVDA725Y4BQAXLN6M67CT263S

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum value indefiniteness

Karl Svozil

arxiv:1001.1436 v2 · 2010-01-10 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3JVDA725Y4BQAXLN6M67CT263S}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T04:08:04.031546Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

da6a307f5dc703005d6df33df14f5edcb30d70d85f679c9dcd1c05939110f730

Aliases

arxiv: 1001.1436 · arxiv_version: 1001.1436v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1001.1436 · pith_short_12: 3JVDA725Y4BQ · pith_short_16: 3JVDA725Y4BQAXLN · pith_short_8: 3JVDA725

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/3JVDA725Y4BQAXLN6M67CT263S \
  | 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: da6a307f5dc703005d6df33df14f5edcb30d70d85f679c9dcd1c05939110f730

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b5e014cb9074aab0152d26ad462099bb8bd90f993d659d9d1c7f29d97fe2da3b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-01-10T11:01:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b10683582a53f313992243fecbcbfdb0358efec7da5e08b3bc16c2acf4eae304"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1001.1436",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}