Pith Number

pith:TT6EPLZB

pith:2014:TT6EPLZBCEDJX5YECHTFGWUO5L

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Information-Based Physics, Influence, and Forces

James Lyons Walsh, Kevin H. Knuth

arxiv:1411.2163 v1 · 2014-11-08 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TT6EPLZBCEDJX5YECHTFGWUO5L}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T02:38:08.326996Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9cfc47af2111069bf70411e6535a8eeae296cf0d066e0f4154b74cf8d4389d87

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.2163 · arxiv_version: 1411.2163v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.2163 · pith_short_12: TT6EPLZBCEDJ · pith_short_16: TT6EPLZBCEDJX5YE · pith_short_8: TT6EPLZB

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/TT6EPLZBCEDJX5YECHTFGWUO5L \
  | 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: 9cfc47af2111069bf70411e6535a8eeae296cf0d066e0f4154b74cf8d4389d87

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2cdf11aca541684d1cd57efacc136a343bf86bee7c97f130d63356ff5fe15a29",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-08T21:08:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "606e1669c3e6d832996684d7b71348e797eeec892317635b8073e038a5ba18d4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.2163",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}