Pith Number

pith:MQWNVVWW

pith:2017:MQWNVVWWBFNFJJT5KMPYZYT4P2

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Reality from maximizing overlap in the future-included real action theory

Holger Bech Nielsen, Keiichi Nagao

arxiv:1705.01585 v2 · 2017-05-03 · quant-ph · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MQWNVVWWBFNFJJT5KMPYZYT4P2}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:38:41.596840Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

642cdad6d6095a54a67d531f8ce27c7ebe4ff6b4be428748e63e3f73ab4e5f61

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.01585 · arxiv_version: 1705.01585v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.01585 · pith_short_12: MQWNVVWWBFNF · pith_short_16: MQWNVVWWBFNFJJT5 · pith_short_8: MQWNVVWW

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/MQWNVVWWBFNFJJT5KMPYZYT4P2 \
  | 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: 642cdad6d6095a54a67d531f8ce27c7ebe4ff6b4be428748e63e3f73ab4e5f61

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e1506df659f3a86f1f9508fd6ab35c62505bf794ad87962edde61f3b09280be2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-03T19:18:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "861507bf81a6804e792d48443dc89a584d7be9e9fd2c7521b4950dc2eee67aa4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.01585",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}