Pith Number

pith:XOHMCDTY

pith:2012:XOHMCDTYY57HOTRKQJP2X7YUNK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Can a Future Choice Affect a Past Measurement's Outcome?

Avshalom C. Elitzur, Eliahu Cohen, Yakir Aharonov

arxiv:1206.6224 v6 · 2012-06-27 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XOHMCDTYY57HOTRKQJP2X7YUNK}

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4 Citations open

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Delayed choice experiments and causality in quantum mechanics

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:41:58.392235Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bb8ec10e78c77e774e2a825fabff146a9664f8b70e65484e1da6a1433625f8d3

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.6224 · arxiv_version: 1206.6224v6 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.6224 · pith_short_12: XOHMCDTYY57H · pith_short_16: XOHMCDTYY57HOTRK · pith_short_8: XOHMCDTY

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/XOHMCDTYY57HOTRKQJP2X7YUNK \
  | 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: bb8ec10e78c77e774e2a825fabff146a9664f8b70e65484e1da6a1433625f8d3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a864c9739eb71f8f9223c1937992e1d00f47073b90a2dd8599e19e9efbb9a6cf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-27T10:11:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "433e4a4ec4df88a027aa32e2dd902c53e59e444da9ab823a2025226a1bd25f1d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.6224",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 6
  }
}