Pith Number

pith:7KCBGGIZ

pith:2014:7KCBGGIZG72Z5EONFCTOM27JJA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Many Worlds? Everett, Quantum Theory and Reality

Jeremy Butterfield

arxiv:1406.4320 v1 · 2014-06-17 · physics.hist-ph · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7KCBGGIZG72Z5EONFCTOM27JJA}

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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	2026-05-18T02:49:37.858213Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fa8413191937f59e91cd28a6e66be9482fc378ff855226b4f04a76533e5b0d8c

Aliases

arxiv: 1406.4320 · arxiv_version: 1406.4320v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.4320 · pith_short_12: 7KCBGGIZG72Z · pith_short_16: 7KCBGGIZG72Z5EON · pith_short_8: 7KCBGGIZ

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/7KCBGGIZG72Z5EONFCTOM27JJA \
  | 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: fa8413191937f59e91cd28a6e66be9482fc378ff855226b4f04a76533e5b0d8c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8a4aef1dce95e7357fe91ae5a39a7953fe11e501ba49ba157be71bc261487822",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-06-17T11:16:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "975a02bf4f41933a7fdb09d7ded510bc7052cf4bc676e320a0f7640fad70bc28"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1406.4320",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}