Pith Number

pith:42Q3OT47

pith:2014:42Q3OT4736OOA7L7B253ILVOO7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

No-faster-than-light-signaling implies linear evolutions. A re-derivation

Angelo Bassi, Kasra Hejazi

arxiv:1411.1768 v2 · 2014-11-06 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{42Q3OT4736OOA7L7B253ILVOO7}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T01:30:01.202017Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e6a1b74f9fdf9ce07d7f0ebbb42eae77c77024ca1eee5ff306ad86a4093c9ed2

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.1768 · arxiv_version: 1411.1768v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.1768 · pith_short_12: 42Q3OT4736OO · pith_short_16: 42Q3OT4736OOA7L7 · pith_short_8: 42Q3OT47

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/42Q3OT4736OOA7L7B253ILVOO7 \
  | 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: e6a1b74f9fdf9ce07d7f0ebbb42eae77c77024ca1eee5ff306ad86a4093c9ed2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9ec8bb138deadd8e49dc70ea43b4722823c948a64bd1c71706d778f138fa02f9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-06T21:05:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "02fb59aceffb37c4d6ef0aa2bc4dce74232fb3c1ebb744079caa537b9d9348de"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.1768",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}