Pith Number

pith:WABY6YLP

pith:2016:WABY6YLPWBXGQ4PT5NQWDQ443N

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Chance in the Everett interpretation

Simon Saunders

arxiv:1609.04720 v1 · 2016-09-15 · quant-ph · physics.hist-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WABY6YLPWBXGQ4PT5NQWDQ443N}

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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	2026-05-18T01:04:35.764872Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b0038f616fb06e6871f3eb6161c39cdb77d9bf81d8c4202e9ebe29a89741935f

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.04720 · arxiv_version: 1609.04720v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.04720 · pith_short_12: WABY6YLPWBXG · pith_short_16: WABY6YLPWBXGQ4PT · pith_short_8: WABY6YLP

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/WABY6YLPWBXGQ4PT5NQWDQ443N \
  | 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: b0038f616fb06e6871f3eb6161c39cdb77d9bf81d8c4202e9ebe29a89741935f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "27f544ca1cfd552e7711f665c3fb83f56092d38030ca73c6224ea8e83bceefad",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.hist-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-15T16:18:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5fcbf5d38f21a7b1cc42c6d2e40886cb15a9ab376e10d5b9264f9cfd05dd76a8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.04720",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}