Pith Number

pith:KBNVJIOI

pith:1999:KBNVJIOINXQHTPR4FX2PZC3SIP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum Mechanics as Information Fusion

George Chapline

arxiv:quant-ph/9912019 v1 · 1999-12-04 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KBNVJIOINXQHTPR4FX2PZC3SIP}

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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	2026-07-04T14:47:30.234339Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

505b54a1c86de079be3c2df4fc8b7243ed41ed2920044776991bedf3c640f6cc

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9912019 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9912019v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9912019 · pith_short_12: KBNVJIOINXQH · pith_short_16: KBNVJIOINXQHTPR4 · pith_short_8: KBNVJIOI

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/KBNVJIOINXQHTPR4FX2PZC3SIP \
  | 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: 505b54a1c86de079be3c2df4fc8b7243ed41ed2920044776991bedf3c640f6cc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c795af73e5451d9d6f0939b25e0d8cf4285d7f83cbff152f081f9a12a540d452",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-12-04T00:29:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8d8977622bed8f95a23ccece8cc532b4b3ca32ff119aca2dc36a3e27e9cea323"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9912019",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}