Pith Number

pith:I2YA7O2P

pith:2018:I2YA7O2PXDZDDZOGFHTHD6P5SR

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It Does Not Follow. Response to "Yes They Can! ..."

Mladen Pavicic

arxiv:1811.06138 v1 · 2018-11-15 · quant-ph · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I2YA7O2PXDZDDZOGFHTHD6P5SR}

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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	2026-05-18T00:00:38.546227Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

46b00fbb4fb8f231e5c629e671f9fd946f9d24c077bcbb653f00b139558acfdf

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.06138 · arxiv_version: 1811.06138v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.06138 · pith_short_12: I2YA7O2PXDZD · pith_short_16: I2YA7O2PXDZDDZOG · pith_short_8: I2YA7O2P

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/I2YA7O2PXDZDDZOGFHTHD6P5SR \
  | 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: 46b00fbb4fb8f231e5c629e671f9fd946f9d24c077bcbb653f00b139558acfdf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6b8cc950175b1503fd3733c647e70f8f918e6e5d15a1fece76e3209208367da1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-15T01:51:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0b5c3f25b4af2e6f729bbf532256096ca594f9042d9104864c7d0dfecb25b6da"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.06138",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}