Pith Number

pith:O4HJLKX2

pith:2005:O4HJLKX2ZPWJGT6XQ2T2NY6AYP

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Why the Afshar Experiment Does Not Refute Complementarity

R. E. Kastner

arxiv:quant-ph/0502021 v3 · 2005-02-02 · quant-ph · physics.ed-ph · physics.pop-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{O4HJLKX2ZPWJGT6XQ2T2NY6AYP}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T01:05:03.048285Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

770e95aafacbec934fd786a7a6e3c0c3c21e51bf7aaebabc9689c45943e8cbcd

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0502021 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0502021v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0502021 · pith_short_12: O4HJLKX2ZPWJ · pith_short_16: O4HJLKX2ZPWJGT6X · pith_short_8: O4HJLKX2

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/O4HJLKX2ZPWJGT6XQ2T2NY6AYP \
  | 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: 770e95aafacbec934fd786a7a6e3c0c3c21e51bf7aaebabc9689c45943e8cbcd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cc73f7c5b9053fd29bd17058fa48afbada4f6c4fcbd5d039e2f26781d61c2d9b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.ed-ph",
      "physics.pop-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-02-02T18:04:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "208b5cacbb93c14f868bc4c6f44b46774b5ae7027b0b81f540e2a5924e3426b9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0502021",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}