Pith Number

pith:AFXLZDTI

pith:2010:AFXLZDTIDDYVP65UWMFIIQBSN6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Is the Quantum World Composed of Propensitons?

Nicholas Maxwell

arxiv:1011.4479 v1 · 2010-11-19 · physics.hist-ph · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AFXLZDTIDDYVP65UWMFIIQBSN6}

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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	2026-05-18T04:27:16.104265Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

016ebc8e6818f157fbb4b30a8440326fbf50d221ddf72f779ee46f5d1cf64858

Aliases

arxiv: 1011.4479 · arxiv_version: 1011.4479v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1011.4479 · pith_short_12: AFXLZDTIDDYV · pith_short_16: AFXLZDTIDDYVP65U · pith_short_8: AFXLZDTI

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/AFXLZDTIDDYVP65UWMFIIQBSN6 \
  | 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: 016ebc8e6818f157fbb4b30a8440326fbf50d221ddf72f779ee46f5d1cf64858

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1a6f73b9aef64d346b72756fe0659ea42791d7f084bc747bcda767a6ed96d222",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-11-19T17:26:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b5446882b6356b41ce77dbdbdf9b04dc47f8edb67544c3a0de426517fb0a4192"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1011.4479",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}