Pith Number

pith:HI3FLBCO

pith:2017:HI3FLBCOOKW7RO24YQLVWQ2GGF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

History of Quantum Mechanics or the Comedy of Errors

Jean Bricmont

arxiv:1703.00294 v1 · 2017-03-01 · physics.hist-ph · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HI3FLBCOOKW7RO24YQLVWQ2GGF}

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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	2026-05-18T00:49:43.313347Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3a3655844e72adf8bb5cc4175b43463176cb5f6d2767c4a3138c9a285231318a

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.00294 · arxiv_version: 1703.00294v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.00294 · pith_short_12: HI3FLBCOOKW7 · pith_short_16: HI3FLBCOOKW7RO24 · pith_short_8: HI3FLBCO

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/HI3FLBCOOKW7RO24YQLVWQ2GGF \
  | 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: 3a3655844e72adf8bb5cc4175b43463176cb5f6d2767c4a3138c9a285231318a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e8c2d82e4df6899408e7330863cee4b4e5da7a0118398b22af03e3a6c25c7d0d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-01T13:40:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c2e30034d1bcd012aad6552e57c95b71f1f1ad1476afed51e6d2e1a7755f299b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.00294",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}