Pith Number

pith:6SKZWWRO

pith:2008:6SKZWWROJA2YAGXZQ5LPCGDVC7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Bell's Theorem and the Causal Arrow of Time

Nathan Argaman

arxiv:0807.2041 v2 · 2008-07-13 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6SKZWWROJA2YAGXZQ5LPCGDVC7}

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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	2026-05-18T04:34:09.102900Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f4959b5a2e4835801af98756f1187517c13d91c80e28a6c197ace5da56fddf30

Aliases

arxiv: 0807.2041 · arxiv_version: 0807.2041v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0807.2041 · pith_short_12: 6SKZWWROJA2Y · pith_short_16: 6SKZWWROJA2YAGXZ · pith_short_8: 6SKZWWRO

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/6SKZWWROJA2YAGXZQ5LPCGDVC7 \
  | 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: f4959b5a2e4835801af98756f1187517c13d91c80e28a6c197ace5da56fddf30

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "584066ea98d5faf53b0df1b28fa312af283a03f32747172c7c59336f11556d8e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-07-13T16:26:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d60a32e82c8561ee3fde185f7f1c60f847ae8e9f40d2d14d37222a2e96e05020"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0807.2041",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}