Pith Number

pith:LNEDLD34

pith:2017:LNEDLD347MHI54GJLJLAZESVO4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Temporal Observables and Entangled Histories

Frank Wilczek, Jordan Cotler

arxiv:1702.05838 v1 · 2017-02-20 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LNEDLD347MHI54GJLJLAZESVO4}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:50:25.183358Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5b48358f7cfb0e8ef0c95a560c9255770089909f50f9b52511a0d502b48e829c

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.05838 · arxiv_version: 1702.05838v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.05838 · pith_short_12: LNEDLD347MHI · pith_short_16: LNEDLD347MHI54GJ · pith_short_8: LNEDLD34

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/LNEDLD347MHI54GJLJLAZESVO4 \
  | 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: 5b48358f7cfb0e8ef0c95a560c9255770089909f50f9b52511a0d502b48e829c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c08ec4388f8320b16db2f5568850c465531bcfa73aebf75d0dead21bc1582c4f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-20T02:31:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c9cdd2024b1f36e184fec104cc5382ac0dcf62438a9d1360585dfb01d557400d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.05838",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}