Pith Number

pith:VM3R23O5

pith:2003:VM3R23O5IC4DQY3OOGLU3SYMYG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Embedding QM into an objective framework

Claudio Garola

arxiv:quant-ph/0303017 v1 · 2003-03-04 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VM3R23O5IC4DQY3OOGLU3SYMYG}

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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	2026-05-18T01:37:59.501496Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab371d6ddd40b838636e71974dcb0cc1a4fff13078408d48ab10eec012a9b98d

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0303017 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0303017v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0303017 · pith_short_12: VM3R23O5IC4D · pith_short_16: VM3R23O5IC4DQY3O · pith_short_8: VM3R23O5

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/VM3R23O5IC4DQY3OOGLU3SYMYG \
  | 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: ab371d6ddd40b838636e71974dcb0cc1a4fff13078408d48ab10eec012a9b98d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e00ef9af077f29b952fb404aaab88674e66e7f611666ed6179a643781b5f924c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-03-04T11:40:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "360ed2c7660f0ce58df642993ce906d7aec0f17fc91f7fea2f158469069b5ae2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0303017",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}