Pith Number

pith:PJCS5BYX

pith:2011:PJCS5BYXIZ5SR3A7MYPBDX3BWX

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Towards a Formulation of Quantum Theory as a Causally Neutral Theory of Bayesian Inference

M. S. Leifer, R. W. Spekkens

arxiv:1107.5849 v4 · 2011-07-29 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PJCS5BYXIZ5SR3A7MYPBDX3BWX}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T03:05:45.042091Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7a452e8717467b28ec1f661e11df61b5c6322bbbb579e3b862199be174deb9d2

Aliases

arxiv: 1107.5849 · arxiv_version: 1107.5849v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1107.5849 · pith_short_12: PJCS5BYXIZ5S · pith_short_16: PJCS5BYXIZ5SR3A7 · pith_short_8: PJCS5BYX

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/PJCS5BYXIZ5SR3A7MYPBDX3BWX \
  | 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: 7a452e8717467b28ec1f661e11df61b5c6322bbbb579e3b862199be174deb9d2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c4bb77f0e7084e0fcfd17050979d732de416baa6f746881c90d1cde7c5141eeb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-07-29T00:39:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3330a4e0c2ffd7778029431f70d154157b7b13ff89430243f62086cb890957f8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1107.5849",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}