Pith Number

pith:ZLRZ6RUR

pith:2015:ZLRZ6RURM3HI6SU4RLCSVTXUNZ

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How device-independent approaches change the meaning of physical theory

Alexei Grinbaum

arxiv:1512.01035 v3 · 2015-12-03 · quant-ph · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZLRZ6RURM3HI6SU4RLCSVTXUNZ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:42:13.390331Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cae39f469166ce8f4a9c8ac52acef46e6332eb1b2bab3752be9ff0ec4e4d60f2

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.01035 · arxiv_version: 1512.01035v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.01035 · pith_short_12: ZLRZ6RURM3HI · pith_short_16: ZLRZ6RURM3HI6SU4 · pith_short_8: ZLRZ6RUR

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZLRZ6RURM3HI6SU4RLCSVTXUNZ \
  | 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: cae39f469166ce8f4a9c8ac52acef46e6332eb1b2bab3752be9ff0ec4e4d60f2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f7de3db16ba28f5afb3989df1ad7104a6f5bbe8b9c5623493380b928b734bbc0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-03T11:08:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e959e80e0bc4bcd89f27217d6180110c3810f833d14cbe5c7c4f29513193cdbe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.01035",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}