Pith Number

pith:5Y2D2LBE

pith:2011:5Y2D2LBEEZVYXUUVDBQWOB3UZ5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Consistent assignment of quantum probabilities

Manas K. Patra, Ron van der Meyden

arxiv:1109.1763 v2 · 2011-09-08 · quant-ph · math-ph · math.MP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5Y2D2LBEEZVYXUUVDBQWOB3UZ5}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:00:37.768201Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ee343d2c24266b8bd2951861670774cf52009db84a40530f81d7295a6620ab00

Aliases

arxiv: 1109.1763 · arxiv_version: 1109.1763v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1109.1763 · pith_short_12: 5Y2D2LBEEZVY · pith_short_16: 5Y2D2LBEEZVYXUUV · pith_short_8: 5Y2D2LBE

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/5Y2D2LBEEZVYXUUVDBQWOB3UZ5 \
  | 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: ee343d2c24266b8bd2951861670774cf52009db84a40530f81d7295a6620ab00

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c0418ac9ef3c0664edad898e31ec1b6695fd34365db238dc411bc3ff6999c814",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math-ph",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-09-08T16:37:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "02bef972ab20947f40a8dd0c3eb8bacaaee055078a8ecf9ae2004d2730190766"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1109.1763",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}