Pith Number

pith:RA3LGR7T

pith:2017:RA3LGR7TDJMATVUHZXEAKVGAIA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Causal Asymmetry in a Quantum World

Andrew J. P. Garner, James P. Crutchfield, Jayne Thompson, John R. Mahoney, Mile Gu, Vlatko Vedral

arxiv:1712.02368 v2 · 2017-12-06 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RA3LGR7TDJMATVUHZXEAKVGAIA}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:10:03.468163Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8836b347f31a5809d687cdc80554c040102ecda8020f37fc459ddd3925a9db2e

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.02368 · arxiv_version: 1712.02368v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.02368 · pith_short_12: RA3LGR7TDJMA · pith_short_16: RA3LGR7TDJMATVUH · pith_short_8: RA3LGR7T

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/RA3LGR7TDJMATVUHZXEAKVGAIA \
  | 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: 8836b347f31a5809d687cdc80554c040102ecda8020f37fc459ddd3925a9db2e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "289527fa00b421d080a7d751bec6313221ef048dc5be9c26d8b5b5364eb6e990",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-06T19:01:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bf7c1d16d9b559a4cbc7307e590d4dd065d774ad6e620033907d45f4b83fdd93"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.02368",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}