Pith Number

pith:LBWXTSPX

pith:2018:LBWXTSPXY34T3LWUFNVR6QXSLK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantifying the Imaginarity of Quantum Mechanics

Alexander Hickey, Gilad Gour

arxiv:1801.05123 v2 · 2018-01-16 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LBWXTSPXY34T3LWUFNVR6QXSLK}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:05:45.985554Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

586d79c9f7c6f93daed42b6b1f42f25aa64dc546bdf9aed1d6212c1426f96475

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.05123 · arxiv_version: 1801.05123v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.05123 · pith_short_12: LBWXTSPXY34T · pith_short_16: LBWXTSPXY34T3LWU · pith_short_8: LBWXTSPX

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/LBWXTSPXY34T3LWUFNVR6QXSLK \
  | 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: 586d79c9f7c6f93daed42b6b1f42f25aa64dc546bdf9aed1d6212c1426f96475

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1b798bae1f27d6f0e8f0a08896d724818c0d1f00a38e97dca193e5c01a66d332",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-16T05:42:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "210063cbb9f48ec625601a1ae79e7c14263ec4832b9338a32b57ecc8d0a63334"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.05123",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}