Pith Number

pith:S2YXAVHG

pith:2014:S2YXAVHGZBBDTC4UM6WVMDVG2F

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Many Worlds, the Born Rule, and Self-Locating Uncertainty

Charles T. Sebens, Sean M. Carroll

arxiv:1405.7907 v3 · 2014-05-30 · gr-qc · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{S2YXAVHGZBBDTC4UM6WVMDVG2F}

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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	2026-05-18T01:43:04.574110Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

96b17054e6c842398b9467ad560ea6d14435cfd207496e463d78c490ce3cb3fb

Aliases

arxiv: 1405.7907 · arxiv_version: 1405.7907v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1405.7907 · pith_short_12: S2YXAVHGZBBD · pith_short_16: S2YXAVHGZBBDTC4U · pith_short_8: S2YXAVHG

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/S2YXAVHGZBBDTC4UM6WVMDVG2F \
  | 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: 96b17054e6c842398b9467ad560ea6d14435cfd207496e463d78c490ce3cb3fb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e2d98a6dc67491a150d56429debb3199c02a901bb90231552f6d5ab0843ea22d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2014-05-30T16:19:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ef50d1917f27b074fd48c73ce182439c979ca86fe4b7bcb6afa99c32a3733e7d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1405.7907",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}