Pith Number

pith:BGX7RWCB

pith:2016:BGX7RWCBAY3EYB64WNT6V3JCOT

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Time, chance and quantum theory

Anthony Sudbery

arxiv:1601.04892 v1 · 2016-01-19 · quant-ph · physics.hist-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BGX7RWCBAY3EYB64WNT6V3JCOT}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:32:21.558638Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

09aff8d84106364c07dcb367eaed2274ff3b74d3761da8f1c261e2a77e597c62

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.04892 · arxiv_version: 1601.04892v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.04892 · pith_short_12: BGX7RWCBAY3E · pith_short_16: BGX7RWCBAY3EYB64 · pith_short_8: BGX7RWCB

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/BGX7RWCBAY3EYB64WNT6V3JCOT \
  | 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: 09aff8d84106364c07dcb367eaed2274ff3b74d3761da8f1c261e2a77e597c62

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a43ec25c2f0078130728c2517d1868789a3ed67289b77433da8d12a441a4ddd3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.hist-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-19T12:32:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "43be72d937df3f7f7e2e88ef0260dfd096e1b1fc601e7d75787a1c015edf5bca"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.04892",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}