Pith Number

pith:3YTHNCVC

pith:2011:3YTHNCVCP5CATUCB6HEZTBYL43

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New bases for a general definition for the moving preferred basis

Mario Castagnino, Sebastian Fortin

arxiv:1103.6188 v1 · 2011-03-31 · quant-ph · math-ph · math.MP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3YTHNCVCP5CATUCB6HEZTBYL43}

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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	2026-05-18T04:10:48.200498Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

de26768aa27f4409d041f1c999870be6d523e2717974d8f7be009f0691df6be5

Aliases

arxiv: 1103.6188 · arxiv_version: 1103.6188v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1103.6188 · pith_short_12: 3YTHNCVCP5CA · pith_short_16: 3YTHNCVCP5CATUCB · pith_short_8: 3YTHNCVC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3YTHNCVCP5CATUCB6HEZTBYL43 \
  | 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: de26768aa27f4409d041f1c999870be6d523e2717974d8f7be009f0691df6be5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "75816c8aadb7876d2302f5c2596db02728bf0626570f85e1278ddf7546b4b46a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math-ph",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-03-31T14:13:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "47fbddf26855869c7facf5e7048e1fdd3efab95571b6f2ec06db3d6e370724be"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1103.6188",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}