Pith Number

pith:IOOVKX7Y

pith:2002:IOOVKX7YBVQVHBZROA2LOCI77B

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The informational nature of quantum mechanics: A novel look at the interference experiment

Mohammad Mehrafarin

arxiv:quant-ph/0205028 v3 · 2002-05-06 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IOOVKX7YBVQVHBZROA2LOCI77B}

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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	2026-05-18T04:19:02.308130Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

439d555ff80d615387317034b7091ff857629b7d942205028d3c943e6799e612

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0205028 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0205028v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0205028 · pith_short_12: IOOVKX7YBVQV · pith_short_16: IOOVKX7YBVQVHBZR · pith_short_8: IOOVKX7Y

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/IOOVKX7YBVQVHBZROA2LOCI77B \
  | 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: 439d555ff80d615387317034b7091ff857629b7d942205028d3c943e6799e612

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "44ec27f71c2017b732662ed572fceefdb54acbdcb56cdadf11f46b7527b29a57",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-05-06T20:12:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "89391ad679aa9acab4419e8da45bc22318394eddf285804a2e37aac7a3c8ebe5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0205028",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}