Pith Number

pith:TSU4FL27

pith:2013:TSU4FL27SU2J3ALAZTLNPBXJHU

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The wave-function is real but nonphysical: A view from counterfactual quantum cryptography

Akshata Shenoy H., R. Srikanth

arxiv:1311.7127 v2 · 2013-11-27 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TSU4FL27SU2J3ALAZTLNPBXJHU}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:48:17.419249Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9ca9c2af5f95349d8160ccd6d786e93d16fd8e9e77a47091b29b7029690ae844

Aliases

arxiv: 1311.7127 · arxiv_version: 1311.7127v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1311.7127 · pith_short_12: TSU4FL27SU2J · pith_short_16: TSU4FL27SU2J3ALA · pith_short_8: TSU4FL27

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/TSU4FL27SU2J3ALAZTLNPBXJHU \
  | 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: 9ca9c2af5f95349d8160ccd6d786e93d16fd8e9e77a47091b29b7029690ae844

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "78a8ade83bc43d799f9ceefcb7f4379a7b9249cd9311f59a8c5412580bf0c541",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-11-27T20:55:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ccf89422769ae2de3d7f132bd0ad11a8b3edf7f2a94233c89c926139eadb11a3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1311.7127",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}