Pith Number

pith:77QXB3YF

pith:2012:77QXB3YFZUPIDDDQK3ML7PNA77

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

God may not play dice, but human observers surely do

Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi

arxiv:1208.0674 v1 · 2012-08-03 · quant-ph · physics.hist-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{77QXB3YFZUPIDDDQK3ML7PNA77}

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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	2026-05-18T02:27:06.108372Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ffe170ef05cd1e818c7056d8bfbda0ffcaa9327b6a4c16b9e32806c11924eb18

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.0674 · arxiv_version: 1208.0674v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.0674 · pith_short_12: 77QXB3YFZUPI · pith_short_16: 77QXB3YFZUPIDDDQ · pith_short_8: 77QXB3YF

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/77QXB3YFZUPIDDDQK3ML7PNA77 \
  | 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: ffe170ef05cd1e818c7056d8bfbda0ffcaa9327b6a4c16b9e32806c11924eb18

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2435add484bf41ea549173eb650396d1e661332bea52e40d5b012d6871c27aa7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.hist-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-03T07:24:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "19e00cd8a477604409dd72745ccb223d61699caa50a9ffb6a8ec62de35cca43b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.0674",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}