Pith Number

pith:HOPSUSZH

pith:2010:HOPSUSZHNOMUH44YDOSLPQLHJ7

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Is realism compatible with true randomness ?

Nicolas Gisin

arxiv:1012.2536 v1 · 2010-12-12 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HOPSUSZHNOMUH44YDOSLPQLHJ7}

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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	2026-05-18T04:33:28.394660Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3b9f2a4b276b9943f3981ba4b7c1674fc3b3b6cdb33bae02f1f8929044d77833

Aliases

arxiv: 1012.2536 · arxiv_version: 1012.2536v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1012.2536 · pith_short_12: HOPSUSZHNOMU · pith_short_16: HOPSUSZHNOMUH44Y · pith_short_8: HOPSUSZH

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/HOPSUSZHNOMUH44YDOSLPQLHJ7 \
  | 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: 3b9f2a4b276b9943f3981ba4b7c1674fc3b3b6cdb33bae02f1f8929044d77833

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f9d967b281a7b2bfa565359a5669b3e18fb95d4174c85196c66c74e89696fd1d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-12-12T12:42:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "04802db3c349f768c7472d52f2143b2956d8e8e534672ede8c86b2bfc62457d0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1012.2536",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}