Pith Number

pith:HE4HBNWM

pith:2011:HE4HBNWMVSGX6KPTECLMQAGLK4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Causality, Bell's theorem, and Ontic Definiteness

Joe Henson

arxiv:1102.2855 v1 · 2011-02-14 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HE4HBNWMVSGX6KPTECLMQAGLK4}

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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	2026-05-18T04:28:46.287435Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

393870b6ccac8d7f29f32096c800cb571dfb4e130ae998a8b04e851098d692e8

Aliases

arxiv: 1102.2855 · arxiv_version: 1102.2855v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1102.2855 · pith_short_12: HE4HBNWMVSGX · pith_short_16: HE4HBNWMVSGX6KPT · pith_short_8: HE4HBNWM

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/HE4HBNWMVSGX6KPTECLMQAGLK4 \
  | 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: 393870b6ccac8d7f29f32096c800cb571dfb4e130ae998a8b04e851098d692e8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4106ee407f7f23f8cc90b8d49a01fb72da3e70609e75190eb3217aad099cd216",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-02-14T18:54:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "333c9e5f35683969233a8c19037a76aa61e66b1b45bd1f892d2475de43902d3d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1102.2855",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}