Pith Number

pith:ZJINZ3IV

pith:2014:ZJINZ3IVU355MNV4KXJ7AGBTQM

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Counterfactuality of "counterfactual" communication

Lev Vaidman

arxiv:1410.2723 v3 · 2014-10-10 · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZJINZ3IVU355MNV4KXJ7AGBTQM}

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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	2026-05-18T01:32:37.681932Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ca50dced15a6fbd636bc55d3f0183383233372692b5c1c794af7d8996ca62988

Aliases

arxiv: 1410.2723 · arxiv_version: 1410.2723v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1410.2723 · pith_short_12: ZJINZ3IVU355 · pith_short_16: ZJINZ3IVU355MNV4 · pith_short_8: ZJINZ3IV

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/ZJINZ3IVU355MNV4KXJ7AGBTQM \
  | 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: ca50dced15a6fbd636bc55d3f0183383233372692b5c1c794af7d8996ca62988

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4544ee12a1acc6fc1bda9324ca5eab51f6ca16ba959998292c4e132ecd6253a7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-10-10T10:00:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2cf09ac39bcd189625b82b037d1dda6f72c111775d01a9230317404e86ad4f20"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1410.2723",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}