Pith Number

pith:7NRDHCLY

pith:2017:7NRDHCLYH7X6HSYM4OJ7TAOOFR

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Time Symmetric Quantum Theory Without Retrocausality

Tim Maudlin

arxiv:1707.08641 v1 · 2017-07-24 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7NRDHCLYH7X6HSYM4OJ7TAOOFR}

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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	2026-05-18T00:39:23.500731Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fb623389783fefe3cb0ce393f981ce2c75251e12722af9202050aaf7a7cbdc41

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.08641 · arxiv_version: 1707.08641v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.08641 · pith_short_12: 7NRDHCLYH7X6 · pith_short_16: 7NRDHCLYH7X6HSYM · pith_short_8: 7NRDHCLY

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/7NRDHCLYH7X6HSYM4OJ7TAOOFR \
  | 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: fb623389783fefe3cb0ce393f981ce2c75251e12722af9202050aaf7a7cbdc41

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "20e489a0c207ca5a7eea831e71bbcce84388a2a5531014b16d4cb628ef557eb7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-24T20:26:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "550729f042516cc14f1f0c8fbf430a24e163a2308bbaddd7580b3a1b0243568d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.08641",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}