Pith Number

pith:ZVHMHPUW

pith:2026:ZVHMHPUWRPQL2XJL5BRAXQIMXV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum Measurement without Ontology

Richard Healey

arxiv:2605.16101 v1 · 2026-05-15 · quant-ph · physics.hist-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZVHMHPUWRPQL2XJL5BRAXQIMXV}

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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	2026-05-20T00:01:52.670606Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cd4ec3be968be0bd5d2be8620bc10cbd44375962b2b7aee0b8e5b44dcbc953c4

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.16101 · arxiv_version: 2605.16101v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.16101 · pith_short_12: ZVHMHPUWRPQL · pith_short_16: ZVHMHPUWRPQL2XJL · pith_short_8: ZVHMHPUW

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/ZVHMHPUWRPQL2XJL5BRAXQIMXV \
  | 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: cd4ec3be968be0bd5d2be8620bc10cbd44375962b2b7aee0b8e5b44dcbc953c4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "74c198411c2a72dc0fd8f87d2824f70e1d193a28832626f5e8cab1dbaf41e14d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.hist-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-15T15:54:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d976c750c6e280d63dd009a7f17c102aae48bd2e91d6d6342e30b1d0147c3f48"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.16101",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}