Pith Number

pith:BVB6SW2M

pith:2012:BVB6SW2MHWNFWUSYFBMIIB4ON3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Can quantum mechanics be considered as statistical? an analysis of the PBR theorem

Aurelien Drezet

arxiv:1203.2475 v2 · 2012-03-12 · quant-ph · physics.hist-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BVB6SW2MHWNFWUSYFBMIIB4ON3}

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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	2026-05-18T03:59:26.974083Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0d43e95b4c3d9a5b5258285884078e6ef77b52d921864cfa65e4ffae40e91dc8

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.2475 · arxiv_version: 1203.2475v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.2475 · pith_short_12: BVB6SW2MHWNF · pith_short_16: BVB6SW2MHWNFWUSY · pith_short_8: BVB6SW2M

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/BVB6SW2MHWNFWUSYFBMIIB4ON3 \
  | 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: 0d43e95b4c3d9a5b5258285884078e6ef77b52d921864cfa65e4ffae40e91dc8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a951e7a9bff290ec92700f03769568ee5f6f978f1a22f8a8cb85f8b169bdd19c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.hist-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-12T12:49:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a6a2fb338bdb4838d8f7a4e9020e5eb0f7419c91603e4fb2633e36c6b69d1105"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.2475",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}