Pith Number

pith:XGVYTZ5W

pith:2026:XGVYTZ5WIVTIVLRNBIJOCQNSSL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Disentanglement in the macroscopic limit

Eyal Buks

arxiv:2608.04858 v1 · 2026-08-05 · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XGVYTZ5WIVTIVLRNBIJOCQNSSL}

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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	2026-08-06T01:47:24.728554Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b9ab89e7b645668aae2d0a12e141b292f5961670d8d2e9aaba55a02833347501

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.04858 · arxiv_version: 2608.04858v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.04858 · pith_short_12: XGVYTZ5WIVTI · pith_short_16: XGVYTZ5WIVTIVLRN · pith_short_8: XGVYTZ5W

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/XGVYTZ5WIVTIVLRNBIJOCQNSSL \
  | 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: b9ab89e7b645668aae2d0a12e141b292f5961670d8d2e9aaba55a02833347501

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6b6241919b7f983004799e10642965749a42bd7216a02caa7fb25a944df9bb81",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-05T13:50:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "421c95b4f193bb8b3559c5bd00cb54c4b482ab50ab3f11233bfe33b7e16aa7d8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.04858",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}