Pith Number

pith:2YEVTNO7

pith:2016:2YEVTNO7ZXKBZNRE63EO4ADOEW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

No Quantum Process Can Explain the Existence of the Preferred Basis: Decoherence Is Not Universal

Hitoshi Inamori

arxiv:1609.07984 v1 · 2016-08-29 · physics.gen-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2YEVTNO7ZXKBZNRE63EO4ADOEW}

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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	2026-05-18T01:03:54.756473Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d60959b5dfcdd41cb624f6c8ee006e2583eb6ce1b08a451ac05ca2f872bea2b3

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.07984 · arxiv_version: 1609.07984v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.07984 · pith_short_12: 2YEVTNO7ZXKB · pith_short_16: 2YEVTNO7ZXKBZNRE · pith_short_8: 2YEVTNO7

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/2YEVTNO7ZXKBZNRE63EO4ADOEW \
  | 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: d60959b5dfcdd41cb624f6c8ee006e2583eb6ce1b08a451ac05ca2f872bea2b3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d3d4ea9138a9008aaeacb82192bd6fe1bcd7cf514b25d8dd4f5ec8577e510e54",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-29T20:45:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "db229cf408082e5eb1565da7104e518d4c4d465b3a0956ad1d1c3e70a14b5f2d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.07984",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}