Pith Number

pith:JXJZQNUC

pith:1996:JXJZQNUCE423J32DNOCTDMI5AV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Information Gain vs. State Disturbance in Quantum Theory

Christopher A. Fuchs

arxiv:quant-ph/9605014 v1 · 1996-05-14 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JXJZQNUCE423J32DNOCTDMI5AV}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:05:02.095546Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4dd39836822735b4ef436b8531b11d056cfcae477170080fe370589383beeb8a

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9605014 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9605014v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9605014 · pith_short_12: JXJZQNUCE423 · pith_short_16: JXJZQNUCE423J32D · pith_short_8: JXJZQNUC

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/JXJZQNUCE423J32DNOCTDMI5AV \
  | 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: 4dd39836822735b4ef436b8531b11d056cfcae477170080fe370589383beeb8a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bb61aba294bc7071a1f67d16a91e5e12c62f137e3c5fd8a8ba43747d329dc85c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-05-14T22:27:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "48fece1eb18e8d86e2095de33f54f7978e46a198ad0cb2cb5ea8f3b20b764982"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9605014",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}