Pith Number

pith:ROLW6QX4

pith:2017:ROLW6QX4RS4BAAN44WSR6VHVYF

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How (Maximally) Contextual is Quantum Mechanics?

Andrew W. Simmons

arxiv:1712.03766 v1 · 2017-12-11 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ROLW6QX4RS4BAAN44WSR6VHVYF}

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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	2026-05-18T00:28:20.096760Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8b976f42fc8cb81001bce5a51f54f5c178bc465266b2f3674e5958816a35ff88

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.03766 · arxiv_version: 1712.03766v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.03766 · pith_short_12: ROLW6QX4RS4B · pith_short_16: ROLW6QX4RS4BAAN4 · pith_short_8: ROLW6QX4

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/ROLW6QX4RS4BAAN44WSR6VHVYF \
  | 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: 8b976f42fc8cb81001bce5a51f54f5c178bc465266b2f3674e5958816a35ff88

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "27112dc24da00879aec940daead81ff56005fd12f23352497a8f415a52f7bd75",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-11T13:42:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5def9d1c3ea213c9f850808657aca5ccf26420651afa4bd8c00bc4e3235da371"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.03766",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}