Pith Number

pith:XLTTUYLM

pith:2019:XLTTUYLMH6W5JXDBYB3YHC34BB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Against "Reality" in Physics

Stephen Boughn

arxiv:1903.08673 v2 · 2019-03-20 · physics.hist-ph · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XLTTUYLMH6W5JXDBYB3YHC34BB}

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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	2026-05-17T23:48:45.042018Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bae73a616c3fadd4dc61c077838b7c084d3071837032ea0f94844f2c9c897da3

Aliases

arxiv: 1903.08673 · arxiv_version: 1903.08673v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1903.08673 · pith_short_12: XLTTUYLMH6W5 · pith_short_16: XLTTUYLMH6W5JXDB · pith_short_8: XLTTUYLM

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/XLTTUYLMH6W5JXDBYB3YHC34BB \
  | 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: bae73a616c3fadd4dc61c077838b7c084d3071837032ea0f94844f2c9c897da3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a7515e4c5a7a850f35d98bc40280bd8a95b4e06984ea5ddfb256ab2b76822af7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2019-03-20T18:03:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8820dfe2c405f3164e495d758d87f452408fb16ac7804b9ee39b36f582377d47"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1903.08673",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}