Pith Number

pith:SNVZTH5P

pith:2014:SNVZTH5PPXJ65SHKUMKMUABTMH

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Invariant states of quantum birth and death chains

David Buecher

arxiv:1408.6162 v1 · 2014-08-26 · math-ph · math.MP · math.OA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SNVZTH5PPXJ65SHKUMKMUABTMH}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:44:09.263659Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

936b999faf7dd3eec8eaa314ca003361c94f84cd6ed9d1356d7e8117079fad1d

Aliases

arxiv: 1408.6162 · arxiv_version: 1408.6162v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1408.6162 · pith_short_12: SNVZTH5PPXJ6 · pith_short_16: SNVZTH5PPXJ65SHK · pith_short_8: SNVZTH5P

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/SNVZTH5PPXJ65SHKUMKMUABTMH \
  | 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: 936b999faf7dd3eec8eaa314ca003361c94f84cd6ed9d1356d7e8117079fad1d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6072a2b9be3fb0b01beb00367ee0028ad02264f2d11b18f5038532d9527a7f42",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.MP",
      "math.OA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-08-26T15:43:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5d338dd7690b816a203de452e4b8f1f3755c66040d1690b3088e47382d4c568c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1408.6162",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}