Pith Number

pith:3S5XTVTS

pith:2017:3S5XTVTSAM2FL35QITHK3XNN4E

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Quantum-Mechanics of a Single Photon

A. Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh, Michael K.-H. Kiessling

arxiv:1801.00268 v3 · 2017-12-31 · math-ph · math.MP · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3S5XTVTSAM2FL35QITHK3XNN4E}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-17T23:57:03.110544Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dcbb79d672033455efb044ceadddade115b8462cbe8a9cb8786318e8498df173

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.00268 · arxiv_version: 1801.00268v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.00268 · pith_short_12: 3S5XTVTSAM2F · pith_short_16: 3S5XTVTSAM2FL35Q · pith_short_8: 3S5XTVTS

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/3S5XTVTSAM2FL35QITHK3XNN4E \
  | 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: dcbb79d672033455efb044ceadddade115b8462cbe8a9cb8786318e8498df173

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b80106480a14fdda6a5e5f9433f1c98f440f11ca5dc4af8ec6348f2582ccc65e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.MP",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-31T10:58:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7650c371fe7632dd88fb128d3969ba065b334e02bed465562b8253302a42a435"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.00268",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}