Pith Number

pith:SCTMIMZ4

pith:2022:SCTMIMZ44EEXDKKMZFXVWVBCXX

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Branch-counting in the Everett Interpretation of quantum mechanics

Simon Saunders

arxiv:2201.06087 v1 · 2022-01-16 · quant-ph · physics.hist-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SCTMIMZ44EEXDKKMZFXVWVBCXX}

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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	2026-07-05T03:48:54.538662Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

90a6c4333ce10971a94cc96f5b5422bdec9adc46ccc1fe98ed87353966b5014e

Aliases

arxiv: 2201.06087 · arxiv_version: 2201.06087v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2201.06087 · pith_short_12: SCTMIMZ44EEX · pith_short_16: SCTMIMZ44EEXDKKM · pith_short_8: SCTMIMZ4

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/SCTMIMZ44EEXDKKMZFXVWVBCXX \
  | 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: 90a6c4333ce10971a94cc96f5b5422bdec9adc46ccc1fe98ed87353966b5014e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e246c3dd20afeaef97092bb385578077199bca9825ba60258e30d126c0a40fab",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.hist-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2022-01-16T16:50:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1cbf9c331c4c649c5c460c47a227faf458289ab53b52bcf77d3f90ee74c40b60"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2201.06087",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}