Pith Number

pith:HDDVDA3T

pith:1996:HDDVDA3TD2JXIOGQ4LWTJXTNUE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On Schizophrenic Experiences of the Neutron or Why We Should Believe in the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Theory

Lev Vaidman

arxiv:quant-ph/9609006 v1 · 1996-09-07 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HDDVDA3TD2JXIOGQ4LWTJXTNUE}

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4 Citations open

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✓ 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	2026-07-04T14:47:05.356725Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

38c75183731e937438d0e2ed34de6da1379331a1e975817fb970666567308ca6

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9609006 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9609006v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9609006 · pith_short_12: HDDVDA3TD2JX · pith_short_16: HDDVDA3TD2JXIOGQ · pith_short_8: HDDVDA3T

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/HDDVDA3TD2JXIOGQ4LWTJXTNUE \
  | 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: 38c75183731e937438d0e2ed34de6da1379331a1e975817fb970666567308ca6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e829df553859e06176fe90ac72d6032305024bc1d45d06c27b2ec3239005266d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-09-07T18:39:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "daf1f08e4bcdc0085b2b8cfd9d41c25ea87311e096fd54093ef8f5bc2304f42e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9609006",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}