Pith Number

pith:C3AS5D75

pith:2023:C3AS5D7537QHM4AQ55Y6CK5VDD

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Quantum Confusions, Cleared Up (or so I hope)

Sabine Hossenfelder

arxiv:2309.12299 v2 · 2023-09-21 · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C3AS5D7537QHM4AQ55Y6CK5VDD}

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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	2026-07-05T09:16:08.934929Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

16c12e8ffddfe0767010ef71e12bb518d6b20598ca4e893fd9cbb12a3bd64ca9

Aliases

arxiv: 2309.12299 · arxiv_version: 2309.12299v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2309.12299 · pith_short_12: C3AS5D7537QH · pith_short_16: C3AS5D7537QHM4AQ · pith_short_8: C3AS5D75

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/C3AS5D7537QHM4AQ55Y6CK5VDD \
  | 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: 16c12e8ffddfe0767010ef71e12bb518d6b20598ca4e893fd9cbb12a3bd64ca9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "72aaf29ac40be6f3e08e2a73fa626ebbc95735cab8c1fcbde5df2da4dbb7a032",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2023-09-21T17:58:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "824d08a580512a9b4e5c518fbce1bfba8144467f88459350fb2162b7619ab667"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2309.12299",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}