Pith Number

pith:I5DITBA7

pith:2001:I5DITBA7PIX6FH4TB5HLQ7D5VW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Time, Quantum Mechanics, and Probability

Simon Saunders

arxiv:quant-ph/0111047 v1 · 2001-11-07 · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I5DITBA7PIX6FH4TB5HLQ7D5VW}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

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	2026-07-04T14:45:43.761674Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

474689841f7a2fe29f930f4eb87c7dad9b22a4b6aba986548f0be36fc604dea8

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0111047 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0111047v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0111047 · pith_short_12: I5DITBA7PIX6 · pith_short_16: I5DITBA7PIX6FH4T · pith_short_8: I5DITBA7

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/I5DITBA7PIX6FH4TB5HLQ7D5VW \
  | 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: 474689841f7a2fe29f930f4eb87c7dad9b22a4b6aba986548f0be36fc604dea8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "573016ed76b534b153a9f0bf449b3a0857ea1b97bb83ff20e1b72afc1d87030d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2001-11-07T21:11:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6c6394ce1cdc0d310b71b4df5a6ab389e1bbcdfdffea9b9999a0c9673ddd95ff"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0111047",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}