Pith Number

pith:L43QTAVM

pith:2010:L43QTAVMWJUCLTNKHRR3XBKPMR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Logic behind Feynman's Paths

Edgardo T. Garcia Alvarez

arxiv:1011.4971 v1 · 2010-11-22 · quant-ph · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L43QTAVMWJUCLTNKHRR3XBKPMR}

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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	2026-05-18T02:04:42.185746Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5f370982acb26825cdaa3c63bb854f644bb4cf8aad57531a88c92b5efbf21cbb

Aliases

arxiv: 1011.4971 · arxiv_version: 1011.4971v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1011.4971 · pith_short_12: L43QTAVMWJUC · pith_short_16: L43QTAVMWJUCLTNK · pith_short_8: L43QTAVM

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/L43QTAVMWJUCLTNKHRR3XBKPMR \
  | 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: 5f370982acb26825cdaa3c63bb854f644bb4cf8aad57531a88c92b5efbf21cbb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2bc922bfe2211ae84c0ed50b3395977814eb248e52c37261e396a606af834509",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-11-22T23:00:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2b7c3ddd872c1cc4b219d69a4204ab829e11433df9d5eeea152fa7e7a99b4d62"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1011.4971",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}