Pith Number

pith:7DJO2RT2

pith:2016:7DJO2RT25KEWMJ6MPABF5S5PH6

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Quantum Reality via Late Time Photodetection

Adrian Kent

arxiv:1608.04805 v3 · 2016-08-16 · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state What is a Pith Number?

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:27:47.169442Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f8d2ed467aea896627cc78025ecbaf3fb6fd09d26c2dfc00f803bd27571196ad

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.04805 · arxiv_version: 1608.04805v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.04805 · pith_short_12: 7DJO2RT25KEW · pith_short_16: 7DJO2RT25KEWMJ6M · pith_short_8: 7DJO2RT2

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/7DJO2RT25KEWMJ6MPABF5S5PH6 \
  | 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: f8d2ed467aea896627cc78025ecbaf3fb6fd09d26c2dfc00f803bd27571196ad

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "96d88530f0c41b08cb3eabd095ac76c655b237e8c088b56ee5413238814eaa57",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-16T23:26:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7b3d2d39e731d5ec2a7002c58e33e9e374eb7e9e3cb4b68b586b2f458685b79b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.04805",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}