Pith Number

pith:S27USDJM

pith:2012:S27USDJMOBBPYXMXDU2A5DHQJ7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Bananaworld: Quantum Mechanics for Primates

Jeffrey Bub

arxiv:1211.3062 v2 · 2012-11-13 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{S27USDJMOBBPYXMXDU2A5DHQJ7}

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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	2026-05-18T03:36:57.883094Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

96bf490d2c7042fc5d971d340e8cf04fe78a2ebae9f1510eb5c3eadb64538697

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.3062 · arxiv_version: 1211.3062v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.3062 · pith_short_12: S27USDJMOBBP · pith_short_16: S27USDJMOBBPYXMX · pith_short_8: S27USDJM

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/S27USDJMOBBPYXMXDU2A5DHQJ7 \
  | 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: 96bf490d2c7042fc5d971d340e8cf04fe78a2ebae9f1510eb5c3eadb64538697

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "91888c8ee9de4de9f8c5aff820027607860b7e665b0dcd767e54fbacb1789335",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-13T18:02:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ae0651870d0cf5dc14ee30fc16c026b891dac3fa000f23ad7a04e07dddccf13d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.3062",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}