Pith Number

pith:J45B6A5V

pith:2006:J45B6A5VWXZ5SAM6YVHXN4QRIH

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Decohering histories and open quantum systems

Eric D. Chisolm

arxiv:quant-ph/0611293 v2 · 2006-11-30 · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J45B6A5VWXZ5SAM6YVHXN4QRIH}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T04:39:39.629132Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4f3a1f03b5b5f3d9019ec54f76f21141fa45c7c8141dd3e5d2193131fdf006cd

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0611293 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0611293v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0611293 · pith_short_12: J45B6A5VWXZ5 · pith_short_16: J45B6A5VWXZ5SAM6 · pith_short_8: J45B6A5V

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/J45B6A5VWXZ5SAM6YVHXN4QRIH \
  | 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: 4f3a1f03b5b5f3d9019ec54f76f21141fa45c7c8141dd3e5d2193131fdf006cd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "be8332fb6fc583eff1877ed4768c6a90ee10ea149d034cab23bff60155b55d42",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-11-30T16:05:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4348167b054fba0e348e3e122e0993d736960cf056507468b2c38966f9943505"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0611293",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}