Pith Number

pith:ZUAJCEMT

pith:2002:ZUAJCEMTFVNQ6HFWI4J73FEIRL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Being and Change: Foundations of a Realistic Operational Formalism

Diederik Aerts

arxiv:quant-ph/0205164 v1 · 2002-05-26 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZUAJCEMTFVNQ6HFWI4J73FEIRL}

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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	2026-05-18T00:37:24.098741Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cd009111932d5b0f1cb64713fd94888aeae14d8d76b3f277e613d577c530bdc7

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0205164 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0205164v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0205164 · pith_short_12: ZUAJCEMTFVNQ · pith_short_16: ZUAJCEMTFVNQ6HFW · pith_short_8: ZUAJCEMT

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/ZUAJCEMTFVNQ6HFWI4J73FEIRL \
  | 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: cd009111932d5b0f1cb64713fd94888aeae14d8d76b3f277e613d577c530bdc7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d6ee9e51164f1d2710164e17ae226c4906f71ac89998d2891f4ce602d5a4498b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-05-26T18:01:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "474ec4ea09d0997996874b81bb400f24a22426676fb78c59f3f05b7e6e9e783d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0205164",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}