Pith Number

pith:7NSEZKVY

pith:2014:7NSEZKVYK22YVYUUI5IJFMYCSH

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Determinism, independence and objectivity are incompatible

Daniel R. Terno, Radu Ionicioiu, Robert B. Mann

arxiv:1406.3963 v2 · 2014-06-16 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7NSEZKVYK22YVYUUI5IJFMYCSH}

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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	2026-05-18T02:25:47.284160Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fb644caab856b58ae294475092b30291dff6fc511582d80c635b8e56adf8e298

Aliases

arxiv: 1406.3963 · arxiv_version: 1406.3963v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.3963 · pith_short_12: 7NSEZKVYK22Y · pith_short_16: 7NSEZKVYK22YVYUU · pith_short_8: 7NSEZKVY

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/7NSEZKVYK22YVYUUI5IJFMYCSH \
  | 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: fb644caab856b58ae294475092b30291dff6fc511582d80c635b8e56adf8e298

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "042a3a96a070215c2d434d07b842b85d2ca1e8550770426582f75fd46f8b1843",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-06-16T10:43:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "265268ff46659a38c31ad491aa1b49a59b71777cf4bb2cbe8cd609f5940c6310"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1406.3963",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}