Pith Number

pith:NAJ5GIW7

pith:2012:NAJ5GIW7FG7YVTTNAJPENSEEB4

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Can free will emerge from determinism in quantum theory?

Gilles Brassard, Paul Raymond-Robichaud

arxiv:1204.2128 v1 · 2012-04-10 · quant-ph · physics.hist-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NAJ5GIW7FG7YVTTNAJPENSEEB4}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:58:13.214666Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6813d322df29bf8ace6d025e46c8840f12aec75d4a61c2f121faaa16f4e920c0

Aliases

arxiv: 1204.2128 · arxiv_version: 1204.2128v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.2128 · pith_short_12: NAJ5GIW7FG7Y · pith_short_16: NAJ5GIW7FG7YVTTN · pith_short_8: NAJ5GIW7

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/NAJ5GIW7FG7YVTTNAJPENSEEB4 \
  | 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: 6813d322df29bf8ace6d025e46c8840f12aec75d4a61c2f121faaa16f4e920c0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f51ee5e7f3bfa0df2c243a849f53178006ae23896e98611a0b0b8043995e0761",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.hist-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-04-10T12:43:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b59a4bafe1e38a9d35543ff85fa8b54950b09f1604906f8a504e11e64f3d1058"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1204.2128",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}