Pith Number

pith:QX7KDDAO

pith:1997:QX7KDDAOV673BUMEU7HVTLAW7I

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Against Many-Worlds Interpretations

Adrian Kent

arxiv:gr-qc/9703089 v1 · 1997-03-31 · gr-qc · quant-ph

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QX7KDDAOV673BUMEU7HVTLAW7I}

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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	2026-05-18T01:39:19.060143Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

85fea18c0eafbfb0d184a7cf59ac16fa12b29b21812b299c776d703d9eee3107

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9703089 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9703089v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9703089 · pith_short_12: QX7KDDAOV673 · pith_short_16: QX7KDDAOV673BUME · pith_short_8: QX7KDDAO

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/QX7KDDAOV673BUMEU7HVTLAW7I \
  | 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: 85fea18c0eafbfb0d184a7cf59ac16fa12b29b21812b299c776d703d9eee3107

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b33f55ec002f73caa771d982de043703e08a39ea8a474790c1b56af1f7b9b101",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1997-03-31T19:06:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b93125fbd752c79601e3807faf25072dfdbce6b7a07d0b745c9ac157b9aaaa6a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9703089",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}