Pith Number

pith:HMQTES4O

pith:2014:HMQTES4ONLSPH4RPEXWCRXLSB2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A quantum of history

Peter Holland

arxiv:1409.5956 v1 · 2014-09-21 · physics.hist-ph · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HMQTES4ONLSPH4RPEXWCRXLSB2}

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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	2026-05-18T01:41:59.291124Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3b21324b8e6ae4f3f22f25ec28dd720e9f98e2b404ff19e9417ded318973533e

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.5956 · arxiv_version: 1409.5956v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.5956 · pith_short_12: HMQTES4ONLSP · pith_short_16: HMQTES4ONLSPH4RP · pith_short_8: HMQTES4O

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/HMQTES4ONLSPH4RPEXWCRXLSB2 \
  | 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: 3b21324b8e6ae4f3f22f25ec28dd720e9f98e2b404ff19e9417ded318973533e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7a94f8610f880b3ef958747841079e6b640be964874b3e6ece615bd0c09e0ef7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-21T09:09:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f71188dcd8eb7e7a37f3c61fb6ffe1d3dc371488707b360c48b011276110fbd8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.5956",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}