Pith Number

pith:VCGQY2XB

pith:2013:VCGQY2XBRK2BNSCLGHS6EWUO4V

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Measurements without Probabilities in the Final State Proposal

Douglas Stanford, Raphael Bousso

arxiv:1310.7457 v1 · 2013-10-28 · hep-th · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VCGQY2XBRK2BNSCLGHS6EWUO4V}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:57:17.450653Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a88d0c6ae18ab416c84b31e5e25a8ee56578bb7b4012192a3a9567902feb1a62

Aliases

arxiv: 1310.7457 · arxiv_version: 1310.7457v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1310.7457 · pith_short_12: VCGQY2XBRK2B · pith_short_16: VCGQY2XBRK2BNSCL · pith_short_8: VCGQY2XB

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/VCGQY2XBRK2BNSCLGHS6EWUO4V \
  | 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: a88d0c6ae18ab416c84b31e5e25a8ee56578bb7b4012192a3a9567902feb1a62

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "049882ee9156277942aaf7b48ac12db3b626246169ab506c47f2de638568e616",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2013-10-28T15:28:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3f6ee0f878783bf4eb1035c431c694eff7fd9f05969b012906ebd2cd3414951c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1310.7457",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}