Pith Number

pith:OMVMIIWH

pith:2016:OMVMIIWHWWI5SCFBG7MV2ABYPG

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Old Game, New Rules: Rethinking The Form of Physics

Christian Baumgarten

arxiv:1604.03060 v1 · 2016-04-08 · physics.class-ph · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OMVMIIWHWWI5SCFBG7MV2ABYPG}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:14:43.553995Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

732ac422c7b591d908a137d95d00387986c25cb29196bee5a4951584b1a9112b

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.03060 · arxiv_version: 1604.03060v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.03060 · pith_short_12: OMVMIIWHWWI5 · pith_short_16: OMVMIIWHWWI5SCFB · pith_short_8: OMVMIIWH

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/OMVMIIWHWWI5SCFBG7MV2ABYPG \
  | 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: 732ac422c7b591d908a137d95d00387986c25cb29196bee5a4951584b1a9112b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4d9fb2cb03f2e5fb766179b653e8ec31d52a3fe943b480acba1122f7c75d8cce",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.class-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-08T11:33:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "40008c05db98aa3da316380dd18df3fcba41b7a97cd31f0a4e0898a2ada7fcd1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.03060",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}