Pith Number

pith:DEQQ3CRE

pith:2017:DEQQ3CRE6RZ7QUS5LOSATRUSPX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Mysl, smysl, svet

N. David Mermin

arxiv:1710.05229 v1 · 2017-10-14 · physics.hist-ph · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DEQQ3CRE6RZ7QUS5LOSATRUSPX}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:32:53.993750Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

19210d8a24f473f8525d5ba409c6927dc5a5ae2370654ba1aed155b91a967f34

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.05229 · arxiv_version: 1710.05229v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.05229 · pith_short_12: DEQQ3CRE6RZ7 · pith_short_16: DEQQ3CRE6RZ7QUS5 · pith_short_8: DEQQ3CRE

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/DEQQ3CRE6RZ7QUS5LOSATRUSPX \
  | 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: 19210d8a24f473f8525d5ba409c6927dc5a5ae2370654ba1aed155b91a967f34

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "276cf5f0ac06b30e90bbf0e9fadcebc0eef99ff892da5f70e2cd456ed278e958",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-14T19:54:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "85424e38721460019633aef009b84c5ab515b1e6e1645893f4774504e6a6f761"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.05229",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}