Pith Number

pith:KTWP43AG

pith:1997:KTWP43AGTGLX5MIANJ3VTMWXKC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

States prepared by decay

Asta Paloviita (Research Institute for Theoretical Physics, Finland), Stig Stenholm, University of Helsinki

arxiv:quant-ph/9702059 v1 · 1997-02-27 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KTWP43AGTGLX5MIANJ3VTMWXKC}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T01:37:53.271772Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

54ecfe6c0699977eb1006a7759b2d750883199ac2d8c41f20131c847c54ca190

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9702059 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9702059v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9702059 · pith_short_12: KTWP43AGTGLX · pith_short_16: KTWP43AGTGLX5MIA · pith_short_8: KTWP43AG

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/KTWP43AGTGLX5MIANJ3VTMWXKC \
  | 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: 54ecfe6c0699977eb1006a7759b2d750883199ac2d8c41f20131c847c54ca190

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "27729e053eca2033a9cb718e7897b9087144884c738ef8f74855b43a5b8c1bdc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-02-27T09:22:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "267a55310d06e04ca0e659222a3700d4411d4c4134ca85050d73b4fff97eaa32"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9702059",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}