Pith Number

pith:VL7GY4BP

pith:2015:VL7GY4BPDIN6OQ3VLUCEVBODNQ

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On the meaning of locality: the overlapping assumptions

Afshin Shafiee, Farhad Taher Ghahramani

arxiv:1509.03301 v1 · 2015-09-10 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VL7GY4BPDIN6OQ3VLUCEVBODNQ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:45:30.665249Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aafe6c702f1a1be743755d044a85c36c18253c8662c8e9bb18b70bcea469dd6c

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.03301 · arxiv_version: 1509.03301v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.03301 · pith_short_12: VL7GY4BPDIN6 · pith_short_16: VL7GY4BPDIN6OQ3V · pith_short_8: VL7GY4BP

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/VL7GY4BPDIN6OQ3VLUCEVBODNQ \
  | 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: aafe6c702f1a1be743755d044a85c36c18253c8662c8e9bb18b70bcea469dd6c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2e3e512eeac3ea6123eb467580ff8162545b900ea87b690caa72cd3c80f404e2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-09-10T19:56:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "643e9cc33146e1ff9914b48b0719b428a6203fe2fd09f8edf2ac433949769335"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.03301",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}