Pith Number

pith:GUKNP245

pith:2008:GUKNP245WQTM2MEN4HHL2T6W3C

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How Do Schr\"odinger's Cats Die?

G. S. Paraoanu

arxiv:0806.2524 v2 · 2008-06-16 · cond-mat.mes-hall · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GUKNP245WQTM2MEN4HHL2T6W3C}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:13:43.901583Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3514d7eb9db426cd308de1cebd4fd6d89699fbb786d69134570e67372a725143

Aliases

arxiv: 0806.2524 · arxiv_version: 0806.2524v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0806.2524 · pith_short_12: GUKNP245WQTM · pith_short_16: GUKNP245WQTM2MEN · pith_short_8: GUKNP245

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/GUKNP245WQTM2MEN4HHL2T6W3C \
  | 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: 3514d7eb9db426cd308de1cebd4fd6d89699fbb786d69134570e67372a725143

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9c65b50315cbc308ef9512f17d086717cbed97ca47a07dc9d46a2e5b0d1e5870",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.mes-hall",
    "submitted_at": "2008-06-16T08:51:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "75a11396f1bd62edb8b7e484b23f65d6f45049b18236ad74bad043446b396836"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0806.2524",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}