Pith Number

pith:6CIV5MGZ

pith:2016:6CIV5MGZLUUE5M5THA53JKZS2G

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A "Garden of Forking Paths" - the Quantum Mechanics of Histories of Events

Baptiste Schubnel, Juerg Froehlich, Philippe Blanchard

arxiv:1603.09664 v2 · 2016-03-31 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6CIV5MGZLUUE5M5THA53JKZS2G}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:54:37.170935Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f0915eb0d95d284eb3b3383bb4ab32d1bbba4b33f2b64ba925e8c32cf96181d4

Aliases

arxiv: 1603.09664 · arxiv_version: 1603.09664v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.09664 · pith_short_12: 6CIV5MGZLUUE · pith_short_16: 6CIV5MGZLUUE5M5T · pith_short_8: 6CIV5MGZ

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/6CIV5MGZLUUE5M5THA53JKZS2G \
  | 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: f0915eb0d95d284eb3b3383bb4ab32d1bbba4b33f2b64ba925e8c32cf96181d4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fe782305cf88929eb06e429deefbd6f39f57e2522447dd85c4a50aee9c0bfe42",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-03-31T16:23:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "02f63128f40886179d323fca7649937089d0eaab6f3bdc8858b90a2154fa867e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1603.09664",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}