Pith Number

pith:RVHY4C7I

pith:1998:RVHY4C7IXSBHOIVTQBV7T4SFOF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Phase in a Coherent State Wave Function - Is It Always Irrelevant?

Lublin, Poland), P.Rozmej (University MCS, W.Berej

arxiv:quant-ph/9810036 v2 · 1998-10-13 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RVHY4C7IXSBHOIVTQBV7T4SFOF}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T02:35:06.605901Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8d4f8e0be8bc827722b3806bf9f245716e3ff80c245f8cb7f0d73074579f8109

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9810036 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9810036v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9810036 · pith_short_12: RVHY4C7IXSBH · pith_short_16: RVHY4C7IXSBHOIVT · pith_short_8: RVHY4C7I

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/RVHY4C7IXSBHOIVTQBV7T4SFOF \
  | 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: 8d4f8e0be8bc827722b3806bf9f245716e3ff80c245f8cb7f0d73074579f8109

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7b2b64cc14668c3a893ddaa1469d059b5e046de1ef9b65e178ace826a5b9fd23",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-10-13T19:32:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "de8f9e24693ce52c98c01a0d83654e2fada51633e2079c842e9fc0466ed93c33"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9810036",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}