Pith Number

pith:RSAIL4QL

pith:2012:RSAIL4QLJ4JV7VJE5XCU3HH52S

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Excited-state decay in strictly Everett-like interpretations of quantum mechanics

Jon Geist

arxiv:1209.3445 v1 · 2012-09-15 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RSAIL4QLJ4JV7VJE5XCU3HH52S}

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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	2026-05-18T03:45:30.947458Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8c8085f20b4f135fd524edc54d9cfdd4989c20689309eb397d39e6f8fcc07994

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.3445 · arxiv_version: 1209.3445v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.3445 · pith_short_12: RSAIL4QLJ4JV · pith_short_16: RSAIL4QLJ4JV7VJE · pith_short_8: RSAIL4QL

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/RSAIL4QLJ4JV7VJE5XCU3HH52S \
  | 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: 8c8085f20b4f135fd524edc54d9cfdd4989c20689309eb397d39e6f8fcc07994

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8f55f5cf8639a51e6eabd9120146c8bf745edd6fa8c45680962e05f43347e1c7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-15T22:54:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bb34f7f7e41e0bdda6c5f23ffaca84b39984d9e843f78a291d108f404f33fda9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.3445",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}