Pith Number

pith:V4R375GX

pith:2012:V4R375GXTOGHS4NPTANSNIPVEY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum Mechanics Without Wavefunctions

Bill Poirier, Jeremy Schiff

arxiv:1201.2382 v1 · 2012-01-11 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V4R375GXTOGHS4NPTANSNIPVEY}

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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	2026-05-18T01:58:52.677848Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

af23bff4d79b8c7971af981b26a1f5262b637d824a06e032ab3b6041ecc13a86

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.2382 · arxiv_version: 1201.2382v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.2382 · pith_short_12: V4R375GXTOGH · pith_short_16: V4R375GXTOGHS4NP · pith_short_8: V4R375GX

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/V4R375GXTOGHS4NPTANSNIPVEY \
  | 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: af23bff4d79b8c7971af981b26a1f5262b637d824a06e032ab3b6041ecc13a86

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b0ddac141c05717dfd30c165317148aa6db17061a3ed58279f6267755938eed2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-01-11T19:19:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d1e64a951261d9f71795ea67633b8eef7d7827070dc7a60fe3cc57ab39b138fd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.2382",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}