Pith Number

pith:Q4VHXLGS

pith:2011:Q4VHXLGSJA5DHR6GJTNWGM6AJS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Consistent Quantum Ontology

Robert B. Griffiths

arxiv:1105.3932 v2 · 2011-05-19 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q4VHXLGSJA5DHR6GJTNWGM6AJS}

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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	2026-05-18T03:34:00.021842Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

872a7bacd2483a33c7c64cdb6333c04ca149c25a1d1ecefab40e1f828f58ed56

Aliases

arxiv: 1105.3932 · arxiv_version: 1105.3932v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1105.3932 · pith_short_12: Q4VHXLGSJA5D · pith_short_16: Q4VHXLGSJA5DHR6G · pith_short_8: Q4VHXLGS

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/Q4VHXLGSJA5DHR6GJTNWGM6AJS \
  | 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: 872a7bacd2483a33c7c64cdb6333c04ca149c25a1d1ecefab40e1f828f58ed56

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4d7bc5b734ab5e887af2c10996c0a24af7e800095743f49a86a0ec2f0781f5d5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-05-19T17:02:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f2d6b8b0d8b1e77355938b9a6f8a3d7b8290ded8d579e7b3871e1af34796694a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1105.3932",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}