Pith Number

pith:AEDDPTHF

pith:2025:AEDDPTHFWRUZTIAXPJ62CTCDKL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Metaphysics of Protection: Emergence, Agency, and the Ontological Status of Logical Qubits

Kamran Majid

arxiv:2507.00023 v1 · 2025-06-17 · physics.hist-ph · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AEDDPTHFWRUZTIAXPJ62CTCDKL}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-07-05T11:29:35.259985Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

010637cce5b46999a0177a7da14c4352ff28170daf569697ac1503120e910a10

Aliases

arxiv: 2507.00023 · arxiv_version: 2507.00023v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.00023 · pith_short_12: AEDDPTHFWRUZ · pith_short_16: AEDDPTHFWRUZTIAX · pith_short_8: AEDDPTHF

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/AEDDPTHFWRUZTIAXPJ62CTCDKL \
  | 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: 010637cce5b46999a0177a7da14c4352ff28170daf569697ac1503120e910a10

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "73fda859875efaebb1f57ab94a0ea7d40d3e003edccb10206fc022e94ea07e8c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-17T00:06:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2d542957077f587e4a3b2b4a584e73738cd5dd26561e22110fd171e9c2b3735b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2507.00023",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}