Pith Number

pith:SUH2GTEB

pith:1996:SUH2GTEBBLTDMEKAXBOQ2WQVF4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum Randomness and Nondeterminism

E. Knill

arxiv:quant-ph/9610012 v1 · 1996-10-09 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SUH2GTEBBLTDMEKAXBOQ2WQVF4}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T14:47:05.475636Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

950fa34c810ae6361140b85d0d5a152f321c37f47474de3d42ee1853fb6a06cd

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9610012 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9610012v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9610012 · pith_short_12: SUH2GTEBBLTD · pith_short_16: SUH2GTEBBLTDMEKA · pith_short_8: SUH2GTEB

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/SUH2GTEBBLTDMEKAXBOQ2WQVF4 \
  | 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: 950fa34c810ae6361140b85d0d5a152f321c37f47474de3d42ee1853fb6a06cd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8206440faac57b968cb119021f7aa2813e8e4cc0de80354f346bfb55eb9bdb37",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-10-09T16:32:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "98028470b8c8448681eebb988887fa111f7a02922a81f8e7054ed337ae5437ba"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9610012",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}