Pith Number

pith:K354ZHN4

pith:2010:K354ZHN4TRXYTTFF4MN7B5HS2A

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A universe of processes and some of its guises

Bob Coecke

arxiv:1009.3786 v1 · 2010-09-20 · quant-ph · math.CT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{K354ZHN4TRXYTTFF4MN7B5HS2A}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:40:43.855165Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

56fbcc9dbc9c6f89cca5e31bf0f4f2d02d60627fa64d622d11b46317abf123d5

Aliases

arxiv: 1009.3786 · arxiv_version: 1009.3786v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1009.3786 · pith_short_12: K354ZHN4TRXY · pith_short_16: K354ZHN4TRXYTTFF · pith_short_8: K354ZHN4

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/K354ZHN4TRXYTTFF4MN7B5HS2A \
  | 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: 56fbcc9dbc9c6f89cca5e31bf0f4f2d02d60627fa64d622d11b46317abf123d5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f95a160ec7b386358fe5ed0754e76a3345dad57a36c4972e6a72f0a67a4fb555",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.CT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-09-20T12:20:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c36bbffff6f8181cf4faddabb8a17e2cefc6f213a99a2e866fb0fb94c955b3c9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1009.3786",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}