Pith Number

pith:ZIKS5U6C

pith:2016:ZIKS5U6CD5AKU7ZNU7ZHFKBFPE

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The quantum state as spatial displacement

Peter Holland

arxiv:1601.03993 v1 · 2016-01-15 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZIKS5U6CD5AKU7ZNU7ZHFKBFPE}

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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	2026-05-18T00:07:33.375838Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ca152ed3c21f40aa7f2da7f272a82579126244b79b6b42af12831185605ee9cd

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.03993 · arxiv_version: 1601.03993v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.03993 · pith_short_12: ZIKS5U6CD5AK · pith_short_16: ZIKS5U6CD5AKU7ZN · pith_short_8: ZIKS5U6C

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/ZIKS5U6CD5AKU7ZNU7ZHFKBFPE \
  | 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: ca152ed3c21f40aa7f2da7f272a82579126244b79b6b42af12831185605ee9cd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a658d10acd40f7ecef9ecd34b95e3c43b64700ed69039a7809234ac7704b7a3b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-15T16:46:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cfac26b7ec856cb3c2479642351af8279e124f01687e732a79d08862719ef503"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.03993",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}