Pith Number

pith:5CUS62C2

pith:2007:5CUS62C2MH6DGTN7UHEKLCGLHI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Real World Interpretations of Quantum Theory

Adrian Kent (Centre for Quantum Information, DAMTP, Foundations, Perimeter Institute), University of Cambridge

arxiv:0708.3710 v3 · 2007-08-28 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5CUS62C2MH6DGTN7UHEKLCGLHI}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:01:39.906621Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e8a92f685a61fc334dbfa1c8a588cb3a1300f846e9f7b774a5a6ddb207c6f396

Aliases

arxiv: 0708.3710 · arxiv_version: 0708.3710v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0708.3710 · pith_short_12: 5CUS62C2MH6D · pith_short_16: 5CUS62C2MH6DGTN7 · pith_short_8: 5CUS62C2

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/5CUS62C2MH6DGTN7UHEKLCGLHI \
  | 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: e8a92f685a61fc334dbfa1c8a588cb3a1300f846e9f7b774a5a6ddb207c6f396

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8cc0b5c85a64edb3e837e43c08bbd257f8e0f66047a427f8650bfc97c100d00f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2007-08-28T04:23:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a51d9422f35591cfe981c240302bd8574e5c7917dcba03546161e5a67e64230b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0708.3710",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}