Pith Number

pith:VPQUUX4W

pith:2014:VPQUUX4WV5OLGUDHKDVYW75N7G

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum Theory in Design

Shouchuan Zhang, Zhengtang Tan

arxiv:1401.2864 v1 · 2014-01-13 · math.QA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VPQUUX4WV5OLGUDHKDVYW75N7G}

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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	2026-05-18T03:02:31.708718Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

abe14a5f96af5cb3506750eb8b7fadf9b3e1f5ddcb17c60e9fce6f9c7af305e7

Aliases

arxiv: 1401.2864 · arxiv_version: 1401.2864v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1401.2864 · pith_short_12: VPQUUX4WV5OL · pith_short_16: VPQUUX4WV5OLGUDH · pith_short_8: VPQUUX4W

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/VPQUUX4WV5OLGUDHKDVYW75N7G \
  | 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: abe14a5f96af5cb3506750eb8b7fadf9b3e1f5ddcb17c60e9fce6f9c7af305e7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "165795ee5b69b4883aaeb863349eeffd95ebb2a017accc216f966530b45a3b2c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.QA",
    "submitted_at": "2014-01-13T15:12:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e21e7bae024a047895cf51084dc9f3cf8cc7d7cdef59ddaf20354a8a9adaa76c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1401.2864",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}