Pith Number

pith:SEOWNYLM

pith:2010:SEOWNYLMWA6NOFDUQTS3XVEJTW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Closed timelike curves, superluminal signals, and "free will" in universal quantum mechanics

H. Nikolic

arxiv:1006.0338 v2 · 2010-06-02 · quant-ph · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SEOWNYLMWA6NOFDUQTS3XVEJTW}

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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	2026-05-18T03:40:16.519178Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

911d66e16cb03cd7147484e5bbd4899db0b5a41e2e33a93d0d86ec72f06ab982

Aliases

arxiv: 1006.0338 · arxiv_version: 1006.0338v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1006.0338 · pith_short_12: SEOWNYLMWA6N · pith_short_16: SEOWNYLMWA6NOFDU · pith_short_8: SEOWNYLM

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/SEOWNYLMWA6NOFDUQTS3XVEJTW \
  | 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: 911d66e16cb03cd7147484e5bbd4899db0b5a41e2e33a93d0d86ec72f06ab982

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c59c9917fa705cef65afeb2f64c9451090fc58d2f73e45dc336b50061aca9de7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-06-02T10:00:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1edd9e890ac36934ca120d28bfacf75bc58eac5bc5833008a2e2855a7372e27e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1006.0338",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}