Pith Number

pith:FOZ64UDT

pith:2017:FOZ64UDTJT73WCD6T2NKNOMMO2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Reply to Comment [axXiv:1610.07734] by L. Vaidman on "Particle path through a nested Mach-Zehnder interferometer" [R. B. Griffiths, Phys. Rev. A 94 (2016) 032115]

Robert B. Griffiths

arxiv:1704.03010 v1 · 2017-04-10 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FOZ64UDTJT73WCD6T2NKNOMMO2}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:46:34.038622Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2bb3ee50734cffbb087e9e9aa6b98c7683fe664d4aa095e4f1334a968bf8aa2d

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.03010 · arxiv_version: 1704.03010v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.03010 · pith_short_12: FOZ64UDTJT73 · pith_short_16: FOZ64UDTJT73WCD6 · pith_short_8: FOZ64UDT

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/FOZ64UDTJT73WCD6T2NKNOMMO2 \
  | 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: 2bb3ee50734cffbb087e9e9aa6b98c7683fe664d4aa095e4f1334a968bf8aa2d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c9fe319869fc951b416f8ce3235395d72174537094fbd135b6009a0bb31955f1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-10T18:40:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c8d10f2a17de4be78455d83e8491e4509794dd21e633b0c115cb2c90d0fbe75c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.03010",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}