Pith Number

pith:6S6GZ2OC

pith:2004:6S6GZ2OCNNOTQ6JR44RKGDNJ36

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Comparing causality principles

Joe Henson

arxiv:quant-ph/0410051 v3 · 2004-10-06 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6S6GZ2OCNNOTQ6JR44RKGDNJ36}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-07-04T14:50:17.296885Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f4bc6ce9c26b5d387931e722a30da9dfb5d07e3da21e8fd7ed28cab487e04362

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0410051 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0410051v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0410051 · pith_short_12: 6S6GZ2OCNNOT · pith_short_16: 6S6GZ2OCNNOTQ6JR · pith_short_8: 6S6GZ2OC

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/6S6GZ2OCNNOTQ6JR44RKGDNJ36 \
  | 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: f4bc6ce9c26b5d387931e722a30da9dfb5d07e3da21e8fd7ed28cab487e04362

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ebee71de1535abd0955abcd1290edfbb23cd14ba1106dd37a0c3ac6afc43c3be",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2004-10-06T21:40:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f9a482f52dc6446741bdfb62822acfe75a1b9534a72042330da534f63879cab8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0410051",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}