Pith Number

pith:6BIGJES2

pith:2014:6BIGJES2VTNS7VYO5HI6XLNPEE

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No-Go Theorems Face Background-based Theories for Quantum Mechanics

Louis Vervoort

arxiv:1406.0901 v3 · 2014-06-03 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6BIGJES2VTNS7VYO5HI6XLNPEE}

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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	2026-05-18T01:21:56.005732Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f05064925aacdb2fd70ee9d1ebadaf2134bbac7b6bcdb51b6bf8ed21ced641d8

Aliases

arxiv: 1406.0901 · arxiv_version: 1406.0901v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.0901 · pith_short_12: 6BIGJES2VTNS · pith_short_16: 6BIGJES2VTNS7VYO · pith_short_8: 6BIGJES2

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/6BIGJES2VTNS7VYO5HI6XLNPEE \
  | 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: f05064925aacdb2fd70ee9d1ebadaf2134bbac7b6bcdb51b6bf8ed21ced641d8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "50e1ce6002b7860b8e6793efd5b1fd0c3f91b7d1f760d6019538d7f8dce30704",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-06-03T22:59:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b4dd2f0ea95f765c18b51374b5d190c873e6a8082839b4a15c5386156e76df5d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1406.0901",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}