Pith Number

pith:3XAYCI4J

pith:2019:3XAYCI4JSDKNWJTWYBVRKKAPUR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Reality, Causality, and Quantum Theory

John-Mark A. Allen

arxiv:1901.01618 v1 · 2019-01-06 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3XAYCI4JSDKNWJTWYBVRKKAPUR}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-17T23:56:51.609570Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ddc181238990d4db2676c06b15280fa46c82cb31026090e5a1001aa301f9f685

Aliases

arxiv: 1901.01618 · arxiv_version: 1901.01618v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1901.01618 · pith_short_12: 3XAYCI4JSDKN · pith_short_16: 3XAYCI4JSDKNWJTW · pith_short_8: 3XAYCI4J

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/3XAYCI4JSDKNWJTWYBVRKKAPUR \
  | 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: ddc181238990d4db2676c06b15280fa46c82cb31026090e5a1001aa301f9f685

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e2df9c0b54eb9672e3cf89ee54d7be7c842efb4c852d0beff7ef79335c53bb08",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2019-01-06T22:49:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8f0d9638300626ef059b27de414064b0ea96d0081347f9d7998e973694c10521"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1901.01618",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}