Pith Number

pith:UV7KDC4S

pith:2011:UV7KDC4S3JIFEP25NCDWRUMPQU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum mechanics from five physical assumptions

Chris Fields

arxiv:1102.0740 v1 · 2011-02-03 · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UV7KDC4S3JIFEP25NCDWRUMPQU}

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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	2026-05-18T04:30:04.124999Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a57ea18b92da50523f5d688768d18f8508d54b2803a317967c5a08c42534ee32

Aliases

arxiv: 1102.0740 · arxiv_version: 1102.0740v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1102.0740 · pith_short_12: UV7KDC4S3JIF · pith_short_16: UV7KDC4S3JIFEP25 · pith_short_8: UV7KDC4S

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/UV7KDC4S3JIFEP25NCDWRUMPQU \
  | 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: a57ea18b92da50523f5d688768d18f8508d54b2803a317967c5a08c42534ee32

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f617af6feb6054ebfcdac962688322739a5bbc12a32c42d43c0c322a1bc8651e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-02-03T17:47:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b1b7f171166606915e742a8730f66dadfd8886aaaec3be4837956ca51be74208"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1102.0740",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}