Pith Number

pith:XSEI53Y6

pith:2011:XSEI53Y6UHD6ZZXBGHVRWLQ7BT

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Decoherence and Ontology, or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love FAPP

David Wallace

arxiv:1111.2189 v1 · 2011-11-09 · physics.hist-ph · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XSEI53Y6UHD6ZZXBGHVRWLQ7BT}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T04:08:43.951837Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bc888eef1ea1c7ece6e131eb1b2e1f0ccdf8597a8c22efb97ec03b58a87fd3c0

Aliases

arxiv: 1111.2189 · arxiv_version: 1111.2189v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1111.2189 · pith_short_12: XSEI53Y6UHD6 · pith_short_16: XSEI53Y6UHD6ZZXB · pith_short_8: XSEI53Y6

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/XSEI53Y6UHD6ZZXBGHVRWLQ7BT \
  | 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: bc888eef1ea1c7ece6e131eb1b2e1f0ccdf8597a8c22efb97ec03b58a87fd3c0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dc868710d3287ac766a4299f2374475fa4cf5929bb2f00803660c7f69b9b61c3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-11-09T12:30:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1efcbfe1e1bfe4de0c301f17bbacf9f565e2c620fc0654afed2ecd926dcaeb6b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1111.2189",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}