Pith Number

pith:KGIEEXSG

pith:2010:KGIEEXSGYOMMKHX4JS3W7A7KWB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Ephemeral properties and the illusion of microscopic particles

Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi

arxiv:1008.2450 v2 · 2010-08-14 · physics.gen-ph · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KGIEEXSGYOMMKHX4JS3W7A7KWB}

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4 Citations open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:09:56.519020Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5190425e46c398c51efc4cb76f83eab05da9e7e0b6f3c77cc07db171b6648b23

Aliases

arxiv: 1008.2450 · arxiv_version: 1008.2450v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1008.2450 · pith_short_12: KGIEEXSGYOMM · pith_short_16: KGIEEXSGYOMMKHX4 · pith_short_8: KGIEEXSG

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/KGIEEXSGYOMMKHX4JS3W7A7KWB \
  | 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: 5190425e46c398c51efc4cb76f83eab05da9e7e0b6f3c77cc07db171b6648b23

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "568011021e15f7d2d84f615cf009f36a41cc3ec131206ac98ce6bcae7ffe886e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-08-14T14:26:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "483286be0be3a133f4c30dba114cff1e87222af80816b0602e18fee0eecaaf23"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1008.2450",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}