Pith Number

pith:M6YFNWNZ

pith:2016:M6YFNWNZHBABC7MYMJSE5U6MDY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum Mechanics of a Photon

Ali Mostafazadeh, Hassan Babaei

arxiv:1608.06479 v3 · 2016-08-23 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M6YFNWNZHBABC7MYMJSE5U6MDY}

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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	2026-05-18T00:35:05.232600Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

67b056d9b93840117d9862644ed3cc1e24340699c8fda41c42833ec352e5e892

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.06479 · arxiv_version: 1608.06479v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.06479 · pith_short_12: M6YFNWNZHBAB · pith_short_16: M6YFNWNZHBABC7MY · pith_short_8: M6YFNWNZ

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/M6YFNWNZHBABC7MYMJSE5U6MDY \
  | 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: 67b056d9b93840117d9862644ed3cc1e24340699c8fda41c42833ec352e5e892

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3bb4f039a125adb422585e984928e0d6bed8474cca0fc5bf7ddd5c16a5b9f10b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-23T12:08:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "33a9592f724bc478e54296cfd8ad5ffb0ae0e6e44ecc23fd921d5b051db94072"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.06479",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}