Pith Number

pith:VXTSQ4BL

pith:2015:VXTSQ4BLACJOSSV5I4B4AGLEO4

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Quantum physics and the beam splitter mystery

Francois Henault

arxiv:1509.00393 v1 · 2015-09-01 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VXTSQ4BLACJOSSV5I4B4AGLEO4}

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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	2026-05-18T01:24:52.776046Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ade728702b0092e94abd4703c0196477269ceb89ba7d6a7da2824fd4ec626cdb

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.00393 · arxiv_version: 1509.00393v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.00393 · pith_short_12: VXTSQ4BLACJO · pith_short_16: VXTSQ4BLACJOSSV5 · pith_short_8: VXTSQ4BL

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/VXTSQ4BLACJOSSV5I4B4AGLEO4 \
  | 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: ade728702b0092e94abd4703c0196477269ceb89ba7d6a7da2824fd4ec626cdb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4d67fbc240433f6fc470e3a5fd391d2a8c63c306b66b8d9f1ce5e7a1619a85e3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-09-01T17:14:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ae69094d18981b4aa7c835fda94770eaf07a49e0a140e862576ed7e4234ee1d8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.00393",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}