Pith Number

pith:NKQQ57UH

pith:2015:NKQQ57UHSTNT7WT2EPA5G6JQCS

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A simple derivation of Born's rule with and without Gleason's theorem

Alexia Auff\`eves, Philippe Grangier

arxiv:1505.01369 v1 · 2015-05-06 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NKQQ57UHSTNT7WT2EPA5G6JQCS}

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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	2026-05-18T02:16:49.580234Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6aa10efe8794db3fda7a23c1d3793014b9cb81839adeed60430a2964f8615f72

Aliases

arxiv: 1505.01369 · arxiv_version: 1505.01369v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1505.01369 · pith_short_12: NKQQ57UHSTNT · pith_short_16: NKQQ57UHSTNT7WT2 · pith_short_8: NKQQ57UH

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NKQQ57UHSTNT7WT2EPA5G6JQCS \
  | 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: 6aa10efe8794db3fda7a23c1d3793014b9cb81839adeed60430a2964f8615f72

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0a4b840019dd5f6322dff9ebeac3c2439d21709052b03358d4683a955570e239",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-05-06T14:00:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5bfd9846873b6c299c853569a728b9be34c64beaa39c2291e450c4e8fb3ddc4c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1505.01369",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}