Pith Number

pith:HIOV4RCN

pith:2018:HIOV4RCN73A76ZRMA2EIL4WMY7

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Diagnosing `Diagnosing the trouble...'

R.S. Mackintosh

arxiv:1804.04427 v1 · 2018-04-12 · quant-ph · physics.hist-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HIOV4RCN73A76ZRMA2EIL4WMY7}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:18:36.960422Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3a1d5e444dfec1ff662c068885f2ccc7e8cc36143af3591369830a8c9a2ade33

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.04427 · arxiv_version: 1804.04427v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.04427 · pith_short_12: HIOV4RCN73A7 · pith_short_16: HIOV4RCN73A76ZRM · pith_short_8: HIOV4RCN

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/HIOV4RCN73A76ZRMA2EIL4WMY7 \
  | 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: 3a1d5e444dfec1ff662c068885f2ccc7e8cc36143af3591369830a8c9a2ade33

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "23b0401e9794fa3287bceb607a815071f67a3ed491c175ed464845cdfc7eecb8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.hist-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-12T11:06:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "276e4b29847179d7d35cf950d364c75978a57e04fd9f3a32924ddda241b7dbe4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.04427",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}