Pith Number

pith:O3ZF2D2O

pith:2009:O3ZF2D2OTVQVFEHQGGDBU576SX

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Indeterminism and Randomness Through Physics

Karl Svozil

arxiv:0905.0806 v2 · 2009-05-06 · physics.hist-ph · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{O3ZF2D2OTVQVFEHQGGDBU576SX}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:24:27.846405Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

76f25d0f4e9d615290f031861a77fe95fc6a5d1656e5e5aa7a03d88274d5d62e

Aliases

arxiv: 0905.0806 · arxiv_version: 0905.0806v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0905.0806 · pith_short_12: O3ZF2D2OTVQV · pith_short_16: O3ZF2D2OTVQVFEHQ · pith_short_8: O3ZF2D2O

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/O3ZF2D2OTVQVFEHQGGDBU576SX \
  | 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: 76f25d0f4e9d615290f031861a77fe95fc6a5d1656e5e5aa7a03d88274d5d62e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e74e9a42f1869e48444bf01eda1c70762757e38c3e9120061420e08b3630766c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2009-05-06T11:36:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "23d42b813f707e32890d7d1b70c6ad66d784ad996f5cff6f9ffea48c4a6392a5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0905.0806",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}