Pith Number

pith:WG55WUEV

pith:2018:WG55WUEV4MB3NCOSZWO4LGTMPX

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The issue with the initial state in quantum mechanics

Hitoshi Inamori

arxiv:1810.11516 v1 · 2018-10-26 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WG55WUEV4MB3NCOSZWO4LGTMPX}

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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	2026-05-18T00:02:08.442829Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b1bbdb5095e303b689d2cd9dc59a6c7de7d16734b50b02aaf1457c93a6cb64da

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.11516 · arxiv_version: 1810.11516v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.11516 · pith_short_12: WG55WUEV4MB3 · pith_short_16: WG55WUEV4MB3NCOS · pith_short_8: WG55WUEV

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/WG55WUEV4MB3NCOSZWO4LGTMPX \
  | 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: b1bbdb5095e303b689d2cd9dc59a6c7de7d16734b50b02aaf1457c93a6cb64da

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a47ea8ffc9a03fb7274b0a7b6b934a7080e8d388dd957eb2ddaac645ea06e396",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-26T20:05:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "51a1ad8d0915e62fdd0e548048d19c6e78926c719224e699221a41d53c62b696"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.11516",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}