Pith Number

pith:GSDAPB6F

pith:2012:GSDAPB6F24EB4QIBX4EK4QWUZX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Almost quantum theory

Benjamin Schumacher, Michael D. Westmoreland

arxiv:1204.0701 v1 · 2012-04-03 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GSDAPB6F24EB4QIBX4EK4QWUZX}

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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	2026-05-18T01:57:57.633296Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

34860787c5d7081e4101bf08ae42d4cde3fad4677c9298e8392ec7fde63c6bc2

Aliases

arxiv: 1204.0701 · arxiv_version: 1204.0701v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.0701 · pith_short_12: GSDAPB6F24EB · pith_short_16: GSDAPB6F24EB4QIB · pith_short_8: GSDAPB6F

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/GSDAPB6F24EB4QIBX4EK4QWUZX \
  | 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: 34860787c5d7081e4101bf08ae42d4cde3fad4677c9298e8392ec7fde63c6bc2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "995c0c056fd8e7bc2f8851be8e8735572e78ce1c6fad8ddb7b02c8e87073f4a4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-04-03T14:42:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "68336a5fa2e860bd6019328203748fdc05159d8f7b38c335bd7b3928fc6b7aea"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1204.0701",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}