Pith Number

pith:I4TADYCL

pith:2015:I4TADYCL4MHEA44DCNAZYYWYZN

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Comment on "One-state vector formalism for the evolution of a quantum state through nested Mach-Zehnder interferometers"

Lev Vaidman

arxiv:1508.07614 v1 · 2015-08-30 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I4TADYCL4MHEA44DCNAZYYWYZN}

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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	2026-05-18T01:16:49.091735Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

472601e04be30e40738313419c62d8cb6c031f07dc12664513553953d640fbe6

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.07614 · arxiv_version: 1508.07614v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.07614 · pith_short_12: I4TADYCL4MHE · pith_short_16: I4TADYCL4MHEA44D · pith_short_8: I4TADYCL

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/I4TADYCL4MHEA44DCNAZYYWYZN \
  | 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: 472601e04be30e40738313419c62d8cb6c031f07dc12664513553953d640fbe6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "280948419c0da35f24718b2ba859205875e1317ed55841be03ef1fcfd1a23752",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-30T18:34:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8665e41a4b090aaf26ae0896da91fe656eb46a3a35e42b169628273400d18e76"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.07614",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}