Pith Number

pith:KV22GPMS

pith:2012:KV22GPMSIMJXXXXU4ON7VLLO5U

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Geometric Picture of the Wave Function: Fermi's Trick

Maurice A. de Gosson

arxiv:1208.0908 v1 · 2012-08-04 · quant-ph · math-ph · math.MP · physics.pop-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KV22GPMSIMJXXXXU4ON7VLLO5U}

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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	2026-05-18T03:49:21.142697Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5575a33d9243137bdef4e39bfaad6eed12544e56e62e2b90c62f2eefb0e52b88

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.0908 · arxiv_version: 1208.0908v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.0908 · pith_short_12: KV22GPMSIMJX · pith_short_16: KV22GPMSIMJXXXXU · pith_short_8: KV22GPMS

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/KV22GPMSIMJXXXXU4ON7VLLO5U \
  | 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: 5575a33d9243137bdef4e39bfaad6eed12544e56e62e2b90c62f2eefb0e52b88

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "588582e6b72d899f0d83d91461bdf02625bff4496c246f787d883320b6b4dc05",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math-ph",
      "math.MP",
      "physics.pop-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-04T09:10:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "33d6cee15f02c6f1d8ea25b80189bbff10d7bea19fbb595f2886d7d724fc08d0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.0908",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}