Pith Number

pith:WYRIWYVJ

pith:2005:WYRIWYVJFM2HRHYL66OIJZ5PSX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Dialogue Concerning Two Views on Quantum Coherence: Factist and Fictionist

Robert W. Spekkens, Stephen D. Bartlett, Terry Rudolph

arxiv:quant-ph/0507214 v2 · 2005-07-21 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WYRIWYVJFM2HRHYL66OIJZ5PSX}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T02:35:06.816639Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b6228b62a92b34789f0bf79c84e7af95f0ea21d8af25e70fad5c08df21cd9dcc

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0507214 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0507214v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0507214 · pith_short_12: WYRIWYVJFM2H · pith_short_16: WYRIWYVJFM2HRHYL · pith_short_8: WYRIWYVJ

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/WYRIWYVJFM2HRHYL66OIJZ5PSX \
  | 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: b6228b62a92b34789f0bf79c84e7af95f0ea21d8af25e70fad5c08df21cd9dcc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "059d6d92f268b9dd94f67618143920b70b81e27349aff2d87ec2f0a701cd038a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-07-21T23:02:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8d8a761852018de84bf99356ef922e9caa9798a0ebb7d849d0211570b9882a12"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0507214",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}