Pith Number

pith:HR4ZK3E3

pith:2015:HR4ZK3E3PEQCHNB2VBHBPIKVM4

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A delayed choice quantum eraser explained by the transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics

H. Fearn

arxiv:1501.00970 v5 · 2015-01-05 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HR4ZK3E3PEQCHNB2VBHBPIKVM4}

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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	2026-05-18T01:20:47.182378Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3c79956c9b792023b43aa84e17a155672a77efd1131fd666a4ebeaa47d2247ec

Aliases

arxiv: 1501.00970 · arxiv_version: 1501.00970v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1501.00970 · pith_short_12: HR4ZK3E3PEQC · pith_short_16: HR4ZK3E3PEQCHNB2 · pith_short_8: HR4ZK3E3

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/HR4ZK3E3PEQCHNB2VBHBPIKVM4 \
  | 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: 3c79956c9b792023b43aa84e17a155672a77efd1131fd666a4ebeaa47d2247ec

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cbd7a3214de68d394c0c6bc5c5843a4fe606b9537f3234dc75869bb48d8fd75b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-01-05T20:46:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a3b5ad3ea8872033353e9b1ca76fdbcd999b62403e5e1dc20f840fd2795c70b5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1501.00970",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}