Pith Number

pith:G7T5PLTE

pith:2017:G7T5PLTEDTZ3JEULC7HTIRC5CF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum to classical transitions in causal relations

Jean-Philippe W. MacLean, Katja Ried, Kevin J. Resch, Robert W. Spekkens

arxiv:1707.06131 v1 · 2017-07-19 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{G7T5PLTEDTZ3JEULC7HTIRC5CF}

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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	2026-05-18T00:39:57.554060Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

37e7d7ae641cf3b4928b17cf34445d1157402d7e36d68f53fe134a9ee505f848

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.06131 · arxiv_version: 1707.06131v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.06131 · pith_short_12: G7T5PLTEDTZ3 · pith_short_16: G7T5PLTEDTZ3JEUL · pith_short_8: G7T5PLTE

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/G7T5PLTEDTZ3JEULC7HTIRC5CF \
  | 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: 37e7d7ae641cf3b4928b17cf34445d1157402d7e36d68f53fe134a9ee505f848

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "33135bfc3593778a0fd41dbaf6a9d238897f309c8e17e7936ca5cacd87e2cbe4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-19T14:50:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1e3c11c22f6cb18637aed7521af0d8d2f2388c9520f3b85a6261e2712a2c9605"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.06131",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}