Pith Number

pith:VNHFAX6B

pith:2010:VNHFAX6B6PUDHDU73MF4EUNQMM

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Non-disturbing quantum measurements

Michael M. Wolf, Teiko Heinosaari

arxiv:1005.5659 v2 · 2010-05-31 · quant-ph · math-ph · math.MP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VNHFAX6B6PUDHDU73MF4EUNQMM}

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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	2026-05-18T04:41:13.994621Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab4e505fc1f3e8338e9fdb0bc251b06310c777fb14287cec8ce5e74bf8f70f37

Aliases

arxiv: 1005.5659 · arxiv_version: 1005.5659v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1005.5659 · pith_short_12: VNHFAX6B6PUD · pith_short_16: VNHFAX6B6PUDHDU7 · pith_short_8: VNHFAX6B

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/VNHFAX6B6PUDHDU73MF4EUNQMM \
  | 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: ab4e505fc1f3e8338e9fdb0bc251b06310c777fb14287cec8ce5e74bf8f70f37

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "99c9886473ebfdd565f9b573ba49829bcd965b6d78387e3bfad18f1ddf2cddda",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math-ph",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-05-31T10:46:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bb5f5a9eb3a1211ed59f8603d0ce9ff38b55e93da863914fa82f2d9e83bb808b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1005.5659",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}