Pith Number

pith:ZL7TXMSS

pith:2010:ZL7TXMSSLVLUOO3GYOSFZGKRYP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Schroedinger's Cat is not Alone

Beatriz Gato, Beatriz Gato-Rivera

arxiv:1004.4206 v4 · 2010-04-23 · physics.gen-ph · physics.pop-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZL7TXMSSLVLUOO3GYOSFZGKRYP}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T04:25:25.994172Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

caff3bb2525d57473b66c3a45c9951c3f8532a3ae998a16040f5a72716d0844a

Aliases

arxiv: 1004.4206 · arxiv_version: 1004.4206v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1004.4206 · pith_short_12: ZL7TXMSSLVLU · pith_short_16: ZL7TXMSSLVLUOO3G · pith_short_8: ZL7TXMSS

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/ZL7TXMSSLVLUOO3GYOSFZGKRYP \
  | 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: caff3bb2525d57473b66c3a45c9951c3f8532a3ae998a16040f5a72716d0844a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "887bd62d2ab7d189058aa89e0169d2cad3711e4a61e90935bdde13e72a107514",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.pop-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-04-23T19:13:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bef92bd6ab5e75cbefe64912e95d8bb581dbd22afa4f332a043e2203465a329f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1004.4206",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}