Pith Number

pith:S7PMJWZC

pith:2014:S7PMJWZCWEK6CZF22REDONKIBO

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Reality of the quantum state: Towards a stronger {\psi}-ontology theorem

Shane Mansfield

arxiv:1412.0669 v4 · 2014-12-01 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{S7PMJWZCWEK6CZF22REDONKIBO}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:50:02.171812Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

97dec4db22b115e164bad4483735480b8b6dc8c5cc5fb2bd018fa20ed53abd4b

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.0669 · arxiv_version: 1412.0669v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.0669 · pith_short_12: S7PMJWZCWEK6 · pith_short_16: S7PMJWZCWEK6CZF2 · pith_short_8: S7PMJWZC

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/S7PMJWZCWEK6CZF22REDONKIBO \
  | 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: 97dec4db22b115e164bad4483735480b8b6dc8c5cc5fb2bd018fa20ed53abd4b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8d35b3e60be22825b56447849c3401fef3064ea0ad40491f890007f402791910",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-01T21:00:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "967ebeb38cff6f0c1a37d3dfbcfadabd12de07d2b29cf373f2bab536b88d8af2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.0669",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}