Pith Number

pith:H5ZVRKQA

pith:2019:H5ZVRKQAJJCOY7BQXY3JCQPISD

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Why physical understanding should precede the mathematical formalism - conditional quantum probabilities as a case-study

David H. Oaknin, Eliahu Cohen, Yakir Aharonov

arxiv:1902.08798 v2 · 2019-02-23 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{H5ZVRKQAJJCOY7BQXY3JCQPISD}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:40:11.202130Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3f7358aa004a44ec7c30be369141e890c74d1cef21ea8931c13013d223613819

Aliases

arxiv: 1902.08798 · arxiv_version: 1902.08798v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1902.08798 · pith_short_12: H5ZVRKQAJJCO · pith_short_16: H5ZVRKQAJJCOY7BQ · pith_short_8: H5ZVRKQA

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/H5ZVRKQAJJCOY7BQXY3JCQPISD \
  | 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: 3f7358aa004a44ec7c30be369141e890c74d1cef21ea8931c13013d223613819

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "750085fc8ea3fafb6de43b440ef675ec9cb410855b2371ef9ebdfd3c0326f3f9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2019-02-23T14:38:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f01616f76c19955b3e0be8f227ea462018df4a5bad031be1d0ddee0c5f24b40b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1902.08798",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}