Pith Number

pith:YGIVTCEZ

pith:2001:YGIVTCEZSXQBGP3RBW3CYQMIMK

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Quantum Structures: An Attempt to Explain the Origin of their Appearance in Nature

Diederik Aerts

arxiv:quant-ph/0111071 v1 · 2001-11-13 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YGIVTCEZSXQBGP3RBW3CYQMIMK}

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:02.354606Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c19159889995e0133f710db62c418862b4cf9ef8070f3274f46a3dacb3d28794

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0111071 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0111071v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0111071 · pith_short_12: YGIVTCEZSXQB · pith_short_16: YGIVTCEZSXQBGP3R · pith_short_8: YGIVTCEZ

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/YGIVTCEZSXQBGP3RBW3CYQMIMK \
  | 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: c19159889995e0133f710db62c418862b4cf9ef8070f3274f46a3dacb3d28794

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "64443195b085ad1176c102706909f95ab32ea429e7b08f576336f786f78b5191",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2001-11-13T11:43:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d99c807b6b693b196e8d81029ba7ae53b97c7eedb48a5ccc6879237e9e986a01"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0111071",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}