Pith Number

pith:SRTBXNEY

pith:1997:SRTBXNEYLYTTD4EQHJJDSF6ZCV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Time-Symmetrized Quantum Theory

Lev Vaidman

arxiv:quant-ph/9710036 v1 · 1997-10-14 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SRTBXNEYLYTTD4EQHJJDSF6ZCV}

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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	2026-05-18T01:37:53.054155Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

94661bb4985e2731f0903a523917d9154eb67fda4fcdc91320e3c39b57099546

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9710036 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9710036v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9710036 · pith_short_12: SRTBXNEYLYTT · pith_short_16: SRTBXNEYLYTTD4EQ · pith_short_8: SRTBXNEY

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/SRTBXNEYLYTTD4EQHJJDSF6ZCV \
  | 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: 94661bb4985e2731f0903a523917d9154eb67fda4fcdc91320e3c39b57099546

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d078e20b44a611c5c3f593cc4dd4e7e475f0fa10a12adba600bbe8b4666759fc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-10-14T09:53:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "241d8b9f4372a2d802cc4efebc9fed2373ec0483123b40fde22af56cfcd05f7e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9710036",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}