Pith Number

pith:ZADMTCYS

pith:1996:ZADMTCYSXWAJ2XQFYBZTMDT7HT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Ithaca Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

N. David Mermin

arxiv:quant-ph/9609013 v1 · 1996-09-17 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZADMTCYSXWAJ2XQFYBZTMDT7HT}

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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	2026-05-18T04:24:44.165422Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c806c98b12bd809d5e05c073360e7f3cf74a191fc2618c9d59a0440413627db5

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9609013 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9609013v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9609013 · pith_short_12: ZADMTCYSXWAJ · pith_short_16: ZADMTCYSXWAJ2XQF · pith_short_8: ZADMTCYS

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/ZADMTCYSXWAJ2XQFYBZTMDT7HT \
  | 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: c806c98b12bd809d5e05c073360e7f3cf74a191fc2618c9d59a0440413627db5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3f2fb8294a1d816afba1b3a593abb282b889220f40c3ee34a62665fc5bf60b0c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-09-17T17:43:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "acb8588ce5afee6e68b2e8ce13b85cbf89940f724c491c974fc2613225f67c77"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9609013",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}