Pith Number

pith:R5FJ25XY

pith:2011:R5FJ25XY3H5SCYDH3ANMSWBENF

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A real ensemble interpretation of quantum mechanics

Lee Smolin

arxiv:1104.2822 v1 · 2011-04-14 · quant-ph · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R5FJ25XY3H5SCYDH3ANMSWBENF}

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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	2026-05-18T02:02:28.878131Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8f4a9d76f8d9fb216067d81ac9582469669a10dedf7036154062c5b204684aab

Aliases

arxiv: 1104.2822 · arxiv_version: 1104.2822v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1104.2822 · pith_short_12: R5FJ25XY3H5S · pith_short_16: R5FJ25XY3H5SCYDH · pith_short_8: R5FJ25XY

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/R5FJ25XY3H5SCYDH3ANMSWBENF \
  | 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: 8f4a9d76f8d9fb216067d81ac9582469669a10dedf7036154062c5b204684aab

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "97a83a1d563519c6921f5466ab7db90308f15c8c132abe1f8caea2f2b610c067",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-04-14T16:24:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1d61ff02938378b51d049187dabff3a0cb8a018956def611299b452834c653c5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1104.2822",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}