Pith Number

pith:PWB5E4FB

pith:2012:PWB5E4FBLJNOKEK22HQ6K5LTFZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Distinct Quantum States Can Be Compatible with a Single State of Reality

David Jennings, Jonathan Barrett, Peter G. Lewis, Terry Rudolph

arxiv:1201.6554 v2 · 2012-01-31 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PWB5E4FBLJNOKEK22HQ6K5LTFZ}

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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	2026-05-18T03:40:36.539400Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7d83d270a15a5ae5115ad1e1e575732e5fd415a24d998fa9f42200320f7f360b

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.6554 · arxiv_version: 1201.6554v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.6554 · pith_short_12: PWB5E4FBLJNO · pith_short_16: PWB5E4FBLJNOKEK2 · pith_short_8: PWB5E4FB

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/PWB5E4FBLJNOKEK22HQ6K5LTFZ \
  | 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: 7d83d270a15a5ae5115ad1e1e575732e5fd415a24d998fa9f42200320f7f360b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a1530f04833b26ff23a8c88ad8db444c974faf79d76eba5bd302c4bc1c939f3b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-01-31T14:41:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e90e4c647e23f0ba3f88c287449ba9ef7ee6d51463384d19fe5a39e08982a90e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.6554",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}