Pith Number

pith:PY6J2PBQ

pith:2012:PY6J2PBQI4ZII3GYLXNQ2G4NUR

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The Hilbert space of conditional clauses

Charles Francis

arxiv:1205.4607 v2 · 2012-05-21 · physics.gen-ph · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PY6J2PBQI4ZII3GYLXNQ2G4NUR}

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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	2026-07-04T23:58:01.359416Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7e3c9d3c304732846cd85ddb0d1b8da47e11c48210170d9d91b095ce75bfe506

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.4607 · arxiv_version: 1205.4607v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.4607 · pith_short_12: PY6J2PBQI4ZI · pith_short_16: PY6J2PBQI4ZII3GY · pith_short_8: PY6J2PBQ

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/PY6J2PBQI4ZII3GYLXNQ2G4NUR \
  | 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: 7e3c9d3c304732846cd85ddb0d1b8da47e11c48210170d9d91b095ce75bfe506

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "62f43721af00dd1388dc5cbbe9efc489711b0cc29a7616e304cfe5a1d0f18b48",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-21T14:11:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "38383277411a5fa0ab45d8f8410783cc28794dfa71455227c12bccd1d58614d4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.4607",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}