Pith Number

pith:OVDVAWK3

pith:2018:OVDVAWK3JXIKI3DMHNQ4CDIQ7K

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Reconstructing Quantum Mechanics Without Foundational Problems

C. S. Unnikrishnan

arxiv:1812.06088 v2 · 2018-12-14 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OVDVAWK3JXIKI3DMHNQ4CDIQ7K}

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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	2026-05-17T23:52:51.286156Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

754750595b4dd0a46c6c3b61c10d10faa8f8cffbb0befc25aeb729fd6f1ca4d5

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.06088 · arxiv_version: 1812.06088v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.06088 · pith_short_12: OVDVAWK3JXIK · pith_short_16: OVDVAWK3JXIKI3DM · pith_short_8: OVDVAWK3

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/OVDVAWK3JXIKI3DMHNQ4CDIQ7K \
  | 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: 754750595b4dd0a46c6c3b61c10d10faa8f8cffbb0befc25aeb729fd6f1ca4d5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "10b4acd6f1764ea9335d92d42518abeb549a8bed4f8f92a6d5c35f4ebad780b6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-14T11:44:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f17ad0c6d83353a0999e2185fb46514c2daa773fbb6846aef4da2934aeb4abd9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.06088",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}