Pith Number

pith:EDGVLZFB

pith:2019:EDGVLZFB6USZ52MLP3CL7GY2SH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Stern-Gerlach: conceptually clean or acceptably vague?

Robert Shaw

arxiv:1911.00546 v1 · 2019-08-22 · physics.hist-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EDGVLZFB6USZ52MLP3CL7GY2SH}

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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	2026-07-05T00:16:40.137463Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

20cd55e4a1f5259ee98b7ec4bf9b1a91ea2485e64c31b8eac92c0b43e40acbfc

Aliases

arxiv: 1911.00546 · arxiv_version: 1911.00546v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1911.00546 · pith_short_12: EDGVLZFB6USZ · pith_short_16: EDGVLZFB6USZ52ML · pith_short_8: EDGVLZFB

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/EDGVLZFB6USZ52MLP3CL7GY2SH \
  | 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: 20cd55e4a1f5259ee98b7ec4bf9b1a91ea2485e64c31b8eac92c0b43e40acbfc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0cb2c769a3532b056f44165b93e93ae675cba6c04b4ae36bd3520be48537840f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-22T13:57:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "61b4b437a003a73bfad130128b00c4a44daae158523bb1d2967dbf30ea460385"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1911.00546",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}