Pith Number

pith:ERCBPFM4

pith:1997:ERCBPFM4OIA4KS226EY4IDSSFG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Non-partial Reality

Yu Shi

arxiv:quant-ph/9705047 v1 · 1997-05-27 · 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{ERCBPFM4OIA4KS226EY4IDSSFG}

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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	2026-07-04T14:47:07.202213Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

244417959c7201c54b5af131c40e522996021ff469c468e4bcb1ca5533a05feb

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9705047 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9705047v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9705047 · pith_short_12: ERCBPFM4OIA4 · pith_short_16: ERCBPFM4OIA4KS22 · pith_short_8: ERCBPFM4

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/ERCBPFM4OIA4KS226EY4IDSSFG \
  | 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: 244417959c7201c54b5af131c40e522996021ff469c468e4bcb1ca5533a05feb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "837945e4547892cd6ff509f0c9fede7734a7365efa76018a1ce47676c611c459",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-05-27T11:43:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "48a6da4cad24b941d1c64f2c7b5611eb2fd932f9f6fe52406343742573a56729"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9705047",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}