Pith Number

pith:I7D7OLPF

pith:2026:I7D7OLPFNSSTQKTJUX5K4O3S5M

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Specifying the operational meaning of quantum reference frames

Augustin Vanrietvelde

arxiv:2607.03417 v1 · 2026-07-03 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I7D7OLPFNSSTQKTJUX5K4O3S5M}

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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	2026-07-07T02:17:42.157453Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

47c7f72de56ca5382a69a5faae3b72eb3e94d16864bed4f6bbf5c43dc4f87004

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.03417 · arxiv_version: 2607.03417v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.03417 · pith_short_12: I7D7OLPFNSST · pith_short_16: I7D7OLPFNSSTQKTJ · pith_short_8: I7D7OLPF

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/I7D7OLPFNSSTQKTJUX5K4O3S5M \
  | 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: 47c7f72de56ca5382a69a5faae3b72eb3e94d16864bed4f6bbf5c43dc4f87004

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1754e400b68311c6946594e7e77fb1706e9e83a8f7173155cfdc335d992df480",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-03T15:26:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "491def78483b19ac14cbf19a1ed9fc1f85e986680e467eaad3df79d318aef88a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.03417",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}