Pith Number

pith:RU5C7RGO

pith:1998:RU5C7RGONUVQ3BVOINEYPKH262

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

What is quantum mechanics trying to tell us?

N. David Mermin

arxiv:quant-ph/9801057 v2 · 1998-01-25 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RU5C7RGONUVQ3BVOINEYPKH262}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

The metric from energy-momentum non-conservation: Generalizing Noether and completing spectral geometry

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T16:10:27.641573Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8d3a2fc4ce6d2b0d86ae434987a8faf6ad408f0e63640dc19c20833ea7db9862

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9801057 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9801057v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9801057 · pith_short_12: RU5C7RGONUVQ · pith_short_16: RU5C7RGONUVQ3BVO · pith_short_8: RU5C7RGO

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/RU5C7RGONUVQ3BVOINEYPKH262 \
  | 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: 8d3a2fc4ce6d2b0d86ae434987a8faf6ad408f0e63640dc19c20833ea7db9862

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "390e61b222a8aa6de7d2d0892230064639a37cd5a70f42d7b9fbcdaad519ee6e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-01-25T16:30:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "407f3849723ed441b00b10e354fbd37612ff27dbeedfd4222cf2d82cc47e4f63"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9801057",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}