Pith Number

pith:JIISXGM6

pith:2014:JIISXGM6CBBFIXBKM46UGOJT3H

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Observation of a classical cheshire cat in an optical interferometer

Andrew A. Geraci, David P. Atherton, Gambhir Ranjit, Jonathan D. Weinstein

arxiv:1410.2267 v2 · 2014-10-08 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JIISXGM6CBBFIXBKM46UGOJT3H}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:41:49.854099Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4a112b999e1042545c2a673d433933d9ea94741f16ac6d969133eb00aa994b2d

Aliases

arxiv: 1410.2267 · arxiv_version: 1410.2267v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1410.2267 · pith_short_12: JIISXGM6CBBF · pith_short_16: JIISXGM6CBBFIXBK · pith_short_8: JIISXGM6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JIISXGM6CBBFIXBKM46UGOJT3H \
  | 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: 4a112b999e1042545c2a673d433933d9ea94741f16ac6d969133eb00aa994b2d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0b472f23dd110b17f9f3bd98d64be791fc9af5cdcb41e0034ca3a7d9be55affd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-10-08T20:33:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "029cf224b32aa9f6e947c6f6304911464d02b2b79de0f1e1af04aa9d5f708e47"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1410.2267",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}