Pith Number

pith:YAG5MEVY

pith:2025:YAG5MEVYM3D6FCYTULIYTQWK2P

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the distinction between beables and qualia

Adam Brownstein

arxiv:2502.07705 v1 · 2025-02-11 · physics.hist-ph · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YAG5MEVYM3D6FCYTULIYTQWK2P}

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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	2026-07-05T10:12:52.798753Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c00dd612b866c7e28b13a2d189c2cad3cca718090835568084654039ab9884f2

Aliases

arxiv: 2502.07705 · arxiv_version: 2502.07705v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.07705 · pith_short_12: YAG5MEVYM3D6 · pith_short_16: YAG5MEVYM3D6FCYT · pith_short_8: YAG5MEVY

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/YAG5MEVYM3D6FCYTULIYTQWK2P \
  | 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: c00dd612b866c7e28b13a2d189c2cad3cca718090835568084654039ab9884f2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7a28a8c231e70426da4d54f8a0b9dc318fddcd5f57195511c06c2ad2d5d57024",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2025-02-11T17:03:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a877d2222177dfe08a16f72913d407f98e8e034cced32464b1521a7077511a10"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2502.07705",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}