Pith Number

pith:KZ3RMIQ3

pith:2025:KZ3RMIQ3THBNSM4PBH3AKEXS5T

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On the Physical Untenability of the Standard Notion of Quantum State

Christian de Ronde

arxiv:2505.23989 v1 · 2025-05-29 · quant-ph · physics.hist-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KZ3RMIQ3THBNSM4PBH3AKEXS5T}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:12:39.681360Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

567716221b99c2d9338f09f60512f2ece15c2612e94254aa6750cac13ec0c29b

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.23989 · arxiv_version: 2505.23989v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.23989 · pith_short_12: KZ3RMIQ3THBN · pith_short_16: KZ3RMIQ3THBNSM4P · pith_short_8: KZ3RMIQ3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KZ3RMIQ3THBNSM4PBH3AKEXS5T \
  | 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: 567716221b99c2d9338f09f60512f2ece15c2612e94254aa6750cac13ec0c29b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "93b16481c443a27e9cd4522fd88251f059f6084d95f048062df8ee9fd168fb3e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.hist-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-29T20:30:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "27de68319dc4f06ee1bbcf0450f672c08b9ef998332deb727a73bf1a6aef2384"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.23989",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}