Pith Number

pith:SPXBMQNH

pith:2010:SPXBMQNH5LE5TXLRGPU2PV5LST

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How to derive quantum formalism from first principles?

Benni Reznik, Shmuel Marcovitch

arxiv:1002.1707 v4 · 2010-02-08 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SPXBMQNH5LE5TXLRGPU2PV5LST}

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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	2026-05-18T04:40:10.402900Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

93ee1641a7eac9d9dd7133e9a7d7ab94ec5f9e5d03ce3a40c3d2956dda20b7bc

Aliases

arxiv: 1002.1707 · arxiv_version: 1002.1707v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1002.1707 · pith_short_12: SPXBMQNH5LE5 · pith_short_16: SPXBMQNH5LE5TXLR · pith_short_8: SPXBMQNH

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/SPXBMQNH5LE5TXLRGPU2PV5LST \
  | 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: 93ee1641a7eac9d9dd7133e9a7d7ab94ec5f9e5d03ce3a40c3d2956dda20b7bc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8b8ea1a140c714498661273c6f04ae9830453a1a0eac7ab63e121865712c8bb2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-02-08T20:53:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5e4a5c6dd3f6fe64a52a31bc4a0475d8fa612fb2357bb049794cda072921e5b4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1002.1707",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}