Pith Number

pith:ZFKVMY3I

pith:2017:ZFKVMY3IWVFJJ5WBI5EXGXTYDR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Discrete-event simulation unmasks the quantum Cheshire Cat

Hans De Raedt, Kristel Michielsen, Thomas Lippert

arxiv:1707.04230 v1 · 2017-07-13 · quant-ph · physics.comp-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZFKVMY3IWVFJJ5WBI5EXGXTYDR}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:40:20.178343Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c955566368b54a94f6c14749735e781c612a6c78678c9c5fd4340abfa93ca216

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.04230 · arxiv_version: 1707.04230v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.04230 · pith_short_12: ZFKVMY3IWVFJ · pith_short_16: ZFKVMY3IWVFJJ5WB · pith_short_8: ZFKVMY3I

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/ZFKVMY3IWVFJJ5WBI5EXGXTYDR \
  | 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: c955566368b54a94f6c14749735e781c612a6c78678c9c5fd4340abfa93ca216

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2b02d594c126d9cec6e9288de822c565102001519931a472f21f36cc350c507c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.comp-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-13T17:27:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9b7901aef6542e71df61d0b838a0b72d2657dea1c169235ab7848639882e36d6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.04230",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}