Pith Number

pith:XTGN2AKF

pith:2015:XTGN2AKFPML27UYO6XZJF3MTLC

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Ghostly action at a distance: a non-technical explanation of the Bell inequality

Mark G. Alford

arxiv:1506.02179 v2 · 2015-06-06 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XTGN2AKFPML27UYO6XZJF3MTLC}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:12:08.450020Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bcccdd01457b17afd30ef5f292ed93589443ce1f6b6249e018192a66f9ef01a1

Aliases

arxiv: 1506.02179 · arxiv_version: 1506.02179v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.02179 · pith_short_12: XTGN2AKFPML2 · pith_short_16: XTGN2AKFPML27UYO · pith_short_8: XTGN2AKF

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/XTGN2AKFPML27UYO6XZJF3MTLC \
  | 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: bcccdd01457b17afd30ef5f292ed93589443ce1f6b6249e018192a66f9ef01a1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6c4d63f349ae6e2f01ee6475ab99be597a1bde4fe10075aedff01b9dd9c25125",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-06-06T18:50:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "76886584a3bea9c18a1d9a38a1b0a76e565852087e52092e3819b6a92c8d3319"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1506.02179",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}