Pith Number

pith:T5OXZIHK

pith:2016:T5OXZIHKDATE3UNTNZBBBFCBJD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Encoding spatial data into quantum observables

Artur Sowa

arxiv:1609.01712 v2 · 2016-09-06 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{T5OXZIHKDATE3UNTNZBBBFCBJD}

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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	2026-05-18T00:38:42.150746Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9f5d7ca0ea18264dd1b36e4210944148d3f4caf13c7cda0bdd25d7453db9bdb4

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.01712 · arxiv_version: 1609.01712v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.01712 · pith_short_12: T5OXZIHKDATE · pith_short_16: T5OXZIHKDATE3UNT · pith_short_8: T5OXZIHK

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/T5OXZIHKDATE3UNTNZBBBFCBJD \
  | 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: 9f5d7ca0ea18264dd1b36e4210944148d3f4caf13c7cda0bdd25d7453db9bdb4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d4ff28f434274e226dc56339aa8f5aadfe7e4e46125124d2d433e81936610a52",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-06T16:00:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9944b05dd335c14ce202f2b5ca189c8c4abf2f075ff3ed203cc6863353b78b7e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.01712",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}