Pith Number

pith:55THIMJL

pith:2023:55THIMJLMZVBVSANLFIIYFV5IO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum paradoxical knowledge

Benjamin Schumacher, Michael D. Westmoreland

arxiv:2306.17743 v1 · 2023-06-30 · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{55THIMJLMZVBVSANLFIIYFV5IO}

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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	2026-07-05T06:26:31.244623Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ef6674312b666a1ac80d59508c16bd439d6ae64b8cc4c6d1656e3a49bd47012f

Aliases

arxiv: 2306.17743 · arxiv_version: 2306.17743v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2306.17743 · pith_short_12: 55THIMJLMZVB · pith_short_16: 55THIMJLMZVBVSAN · pith_short_8: 55THIMJL

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/55THIMJLMZVBVSANLFIIYFV5IO \
  | 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: ef6674312b666a1ac80d59508c16bd439d6ae64b8cc4c6d1656e3a49bd47012f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8ce36c8a0edf2d725653b4f28e3aab9b417e317e5623911d0972b1cec125c1c6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2023-06-30T15:51:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8b61a334da86cd54859dfccb48e0ceecc1790f606fc92cebe35b7c62c84d1b1f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2306.17743",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}