Pith Number

pith:4F7V6NW2

pith:2011:4F7V6NW2SSDZYJ6RQJG5KCEGQI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Phase-dependent which-way information

Joachim von Zanthier, Uwe Schilling

arxiv:1102.5709 v1 · 2011-02-28 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4F7V6NW2SSDZYJ6RQJG5KCEGQI}

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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	2026-05-18T02:03:02.214141Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e17f5f36da94879c27d1824dd50886822d74450b1c3395de5c1988e2f829a7db

Aliases

arxiv: 1102.5709 · arxiv_version: 1102.5709v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1102.5709 · pith_short_12: 4F7V6NW2SSDZ · pith_short_16: 4F7V6NW2SSDZYJ6R · pith_short_8: 4F7V6NW2

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/4F7V6NW2SSDZYJ6RQJG5KCEGQI \
  | 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: e17f5f36da94879c27d1824dd50886822d74450b1c3395de5c1988e2f829a7db

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "47a006bfa39b5907283a44d9b4be7381a0b2c41d9081f87adcdca815909ccbdf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-02-28T17:10:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a46e8c0e8c4f5621645f8c5b7d39770a2d699e24ab11c0b2ddeb032d524a3bf1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1102.5709",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}