Pith Number

pith:WM4RSV4B

pith:2002:WM4RSV4BWS53KNQAMWNSYOAT5T

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The Nature of Information in Quantum Mechanics

Rocco Duvenhage

arxiv:quant-ph/0203070 v2 · 2002-03-15 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WM4RSV4BWS53KNQAMWNSYOAT5T}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T00:12:02.764770Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b339195781b4bbb53600659b2c3813ecc581a45bdc4d2a3ba10bd61a05be3855

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0203070 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0203070v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0203070 · pith_short_12: WM4RSV4BWS53 · pith_short_16: WM4RSV4BWS53KNQA · pith_short_8: WM4RSV4B

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/WM4RSV4BWS53KNQAMWNSYOAT5T \
  | 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: b339195781b4bbb53600659b2c3813ecc581a45bdc4d2a3ba10bd61a05be3855

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "964b20589ab472d45ef26dc974793bf115d7a73256489491bbed633ebf06f7d7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-03-15T16:04:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ca1e09d532db3dd9f8a559a836763cc7a5c2ed6a601dc600f6fa36238f88a0a0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0203070",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}