Pith Number

pith:VAIFLEIN

pith:2016:VAIFLEINCRS7HFM3YRZA27DBH2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Evolution without evolution, and without ambiguities

Chiara Marletto, Vlatko Vedral

arxiv:1610.04773 v2 · 2016-10-15 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VAIFLEINCRS7HFM3YRZA27DBH2}

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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	2026-05-18T00:50:18.579308Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a81055910d1465f3959bc4720d7c613e9a185cbc5df8a70e361769bc2f87cf5d

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.04773 · arxiv_version: 1610.04773v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.04773 · pith_short_12: VAIFLEINCRS7 · pith_short_16: VAIFLEINCRS7HFM3 · pith_short_8: VAIFLEIN

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/VAIFLEINCRS7HFM3YRZA27DBH2 \
  | 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: a81055910d1465f3959bc4720d7c613e9a185cbc5df8a70e361769bc2f87cf5d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "16e9bb4743d3c6186ccd02e57ea4661f7a093d82091c42f9b6f962f83f3946ee",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-15T18:34:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "acdfe00f26e2b667d8dc0a7e950a85102aa1103213757591fcd4fb9d096a0531"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.04773",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}