Pith Number

pith:ZMLZGIOR

pith:2026:ZMLZGIORAGSLY4BT3NQQRUX3WA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Strong $O$-valued contextuality: ruling out discrete nondeterministic alternatives to quantum theory

Ravishankar Ramanathan

arxiv:2607.14931 v1 · 2026-07-16 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZMLZGIORAGSLY4BT3NQQRUX3WA}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-17T01:21:59.436525Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cb179321d101a4bc7033db6108d2fbb03622502d616c16bb0252d1f4417d278c

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.14931 · arxiv_version: 2607.14931v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.14931 · pith_short_12: ZMLZGIORAGSL · pith_short_16: ZMLZGIORAGSLY4BT · pith_short_8: ZMLZGIOR

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/ZMLZGIORAGSLY4BT3NQQRUX3WA \
  | 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: cb179321d101a4bc7033db6108d2fbb03622502d616c16bb0252d1f4417d278c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "551a43d933c982986221a1d2a2aaa9900caec166c698f0ae0a2305b6027a7d47",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-16T12:46:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "01b9aaec34d7f5e7e65c64f5148493160668295021bab371c6fbed0d34e3555b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.14931",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}