Pith Number

pith:PGV47MTQ

pith:2012:PGV47MTQP2FEXJE3GIVALFAB5B

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A short introduction to the quantum formalism[s]

Francois David

arxiv:1211.5627 v1 · 2012-11-24 · math-ph · hep-th · math.MP · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PGV47MTQP2FEXJE3GIVALFAB5B}

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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	2026-05-18T03:40:02.418308Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

79abcfb2707e8a4ba49b322a059401e87dad45fe6c444d467e4e2b3680db434c

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.5627 · arxiv_version: 1211.5627v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.5627 · pith_short_12: PGV47MTQP2FE · pith_short_16: PGV47MTQP2FEXJE3 · pith_short_8: PGV47MTQ

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/PGV47MTQP2FEXJE3GIVALFAB5B \
  | 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: 79abcfb2707e8a4ba49b322a059401e87dad45fe6c444d467e4e2b3680db434c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3254c4dee33af5b8cc8bf40499b83e719aeca75a7077a8df835359555df8e04f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th",
      "math.MP",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-24T00:41:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "955c3d6b3cba35ea1fc30ae182f8532c4f4f99bca593584c1a2d2a0238a075ff"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.5627",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}