Pith Number

pith:B3JZSBVT

pith:1998:B3JZSBVTLS46PZH3Q2VLYYKTGP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Consistent Histories and Quantum Delayed Choice

Robert B. Griffiths

arxiv:quant-ph/9810016 v1 · 1998-10-06 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B3JZSBVTLS46PZH3Q2VLYYKTGP}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:37:52.714051Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0ed39906b35cb9e7e4fb86aabc615333ec56ce4d0cd3c80af5333cfe5aadc2ae

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9810016 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9810016v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9810016 · pith_short_12: B3JZSBVTLS46 · pith_short_16: B3JZSBVTLS46PZH3 · pith_short_8: B3JZSBVT

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/B3JZSBVTLS46PZH3Q2VLYYKTGP \
  | 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: 0ed39906b35cb9e7e4fb86aabc615333ec56ce4d0cd3c80af5333cfe5aadc2ae

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "be0979033989b6bcffcfd0fbc29382b04e5a4d06124cd75ee9a25259c236d8be",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-10-06T12:28:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1b2b6f2d44e02847ada6f44dd151bd8db22723260685186578794acd3e091f1a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9810016",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}