Pith Number

pith:WFZT5ZS6

pith:2001:WFZT5ZS6NXI4CLQAZWBWNW72NG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Photon number conservation and photon interference

Jozsef Janszky, Matyas Koniorczyk

arxiv:quant-ph/0110170 v2 · 2001-10-30 · 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{WFZT5ZS6NXI4CLQAZWBWNW72NG}

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:02.391252Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b1733ee65e6dd1c12e00cd8366dbfa698dc5a7702ddf280a0577d4481883989b

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0110170 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0110170v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0110170 · pith_short_12: WFZT5ZS6NXI4 · pith_short_16: WFZT5ZS6NXI4CLQA · pith_short_8: WFZT5ZS6

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/WFZT5ZS6NXI4CLQAZWBWNW72NG \
  | 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: b1733ee65e6dd1c12e00cd8366dbfa698dc5a7702ddf280a0577d4481883989b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "79a4020583557b7dd4b9f3e8c1dcc91f3543013714c462101b82d1eb25546c4e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2001-10-30T15:36:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "31cec2801b0a757e55c659a9c5097a8c2ecd7f8a970185e3256dcb562bc78ba9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0110170",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}