Pith Number

pith:OS3L4CFX

pith:2016:OS3L4CFX3GW46J4UJXZZMKLDPO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Reflexive measurements, self-inspection and self-representation

Karl Svozil

arxiv:1606.06938 v1 · 2016-06-22 · quant-ph · physics.hist-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OS3L4CFX3GW46J4UJXZZMKLDPO}

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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	2026-05-18T01:12:00.881753Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

74b6be08b7d9adcf27944df39629637bb9da0794de846fdb97077422063c41fe

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.06938 · arxiv_version: 1606.06938v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.06938 · pith_short_12: OS3L4CFX3GW4 · pith_short_16: OS3L4CFX3GW46J4U · pith_short_8: OS3L4CFX

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/OS3L4CFX3GW46J4UJXZZMKLDPO \
  | 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: 74b6be08b7d9adcf27944df39629637bb9da0794de846fdb97077422063c41fe

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f3411a3923ec81af6e409dc89f47a7b50abac3367c5dcebc077580dcf041d019",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.hist-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-22T13:18:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2fe4b6a9318945cf97e058067e254e0876d1fc63f4cb9598bcad7ef2cab663f8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.06938",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}