Pith Number

pith:RHL4UWBW

pith:2026:RHL4UWBWLRKPH6DH2JNKZGTT3D

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Collapse of the state vector and nonlocal correlations in quantum mechanics

Grgeory D. Scholes

arxiv:2605.21243 v1 · 2026-05-20 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RHL4UWBWLRKPH6DH2JNKZGTT3D}

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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	2026-05-21T01:05:45.435552Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

89d7ca58365c54f3f867d25aac9a73d8fddcb5accb41dd11dca80117d8dd8b1f

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.21243 · arxiv_version: 2605.21243v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.21243 · pith_short_12: RHL4UWBWLRKP · pith_short_16: RHL4UWBWLRKPH6DH · pith_short_8: RHL4UWBW

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/RHL4UWBWLRKPH6DH2JNKZGTT3D \
  | 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: 89d7ca58365c54f3f867d25aac9a73d8fddcb5accb41dd11dca80117d8dd8b1f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fd788c9287deebdb1f25a0abed679f38191513bad7354166fd3fcc698d1362c7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-20T14:32:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "519f94906b0c982a6e247d7cd3303e0980ccf185ec5f157411808db3d321bb28"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.21243",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}