Pith Number

pith:VYZXYNZD

pith:2004:VYZXYNZDZAXNN3YWQE567RUASH

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The Significance of Information in Quantum Theory

Alexei Grinbaum

arxiv:quant-ph/0410071 v1 · 2004-10-11 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VYZXYNZDZAXNN3YWQE567RUASH}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:05:03.211891Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ae337c3723c82ed6ef16813befc68091edeaaf9511581867afc2b915c3e63827

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0410071 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0410071v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0410071 · pith_short_12: VYZXYNZDZAXN · pith_short_16: VYZXYNZDZAXNN3YW · pith_short_8: VYZXYNZD

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/VYZXYNZDZAXNN3YWQE567RUASH \
  | 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: ae337c3723c82ed6ef16813befc68091edeaaf9511581867afc2b915c3e63827

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7a8e0fd2711e49403e7a81f1d078db62e358ad6b81045accbe79ed7675ce6f50",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2004-10-11T14:02:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "952eba38d8df35c42f2fb1573ae333d2cd87f19367ced019e1ba7dd726e76a06"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0410071",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}