Pith Number

pith:QGZIVG5Q

pith:2019:QGZIVG5QQVMOWVW7V4XXUBQLJR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Emergence of outcomes in quantum mechanics

Bradley A. Foreman

arxiv:1907.03456 v2 · 2019-07-08 · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QGZIVG5QQVMOWVW7V4XXUBQLJR}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-17T23:41:00.447859Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

81b28a9bb08558eb56dfaf2f7a060b4c41f429fc58b394abf32fa7a6c844f678

Aliases

arxiv: 1907.03456 · arxiv_version: 1907.03456v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1907.03456 · pith_short_12: QGZIVG5QQVMO · pith_short_16: QGZIVG5QQVMOWVW7 · pith_short_8: QGZIVG5Q

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/QGZIVG5QQVMOWVW7V4XXUBQLJR \
  | 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: 81b28a9bb08558eb56dfaf2f7a060b4c41f429fc58b394abf32fa7a6c844f678

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "63f19e8190947d81b43d57708a7f10a0419817177167791435244dd04e3428f3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2019-07-08T08:41:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8ed6957c41f30fe30f825ef2a3b5192ecfcf90d1ee6c6ecd7127538e5e6ab037"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1907.03456",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}