Pith Number

pith:K6G6ZAOG

pith:2019:K6G6ZAOG4TBBYNT4JQQGYG3O3A

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Origin of the Complex Structure of Quantum Mechanics

Andreas Aste

arxiv:1905.12894 v1 · 2019-05-30 · quant-ph · math-ph · math.MP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{K6G6ZAOG4TBBYNT4JQQGYG3O3A}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:44:39.387306Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

578dec81c6e4c21c367c4c206c1b6ed803a2e12cc664bb6f813dea2d4eefb13b

Aliases

arxiv: 1905.12894 · arxiv_version: 1905.12894v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1905.12894 · pith_short_12: K6G6ZAOG4TBB · pith_short_16: K6G6ZAOG4TBBYNT4 · pith_short_8: K6G6ZAOG

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/K6G6ZAOG4TBBYNT4JQQGYG3O3A \
  | 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: 578dec81c6e4c21c367c4c206c1b6ed803a2e12cc664bb6f813dea2d4eefb13b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "810f77d68e2631911d3d3b260f37fb6aadc2c3ff24780c5f3168ee5862586f5d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math-ph",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2019-05-30T07:36:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "75b0e3838812c36dbcc4adf14475816f79c25f6507e9d61501413acd90474b23"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1905.12894",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}