Pith Number

pith:YYIM3PJN

pith:2003:YYIM3PJNFLEWZDXXF5QDP2EV5G

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Observables and States p-Mechanics

Alastair Brodlie, Vladimir V. Kisil

arxiv:quant-ph/0304023 v1 · 2003-04-03 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YYIM3PJNFLEWZDXXF5QDP2EV5G}

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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	2026-05-18T02:35:06.944953Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c610cdbd2d2ac96c8ef72f6037e895e9bcca7801bdd4dc6f1dac97c2ca916f67

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0304023 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0304023v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0304023 · pith_short_12: YYIM3PJNFLEW · pith_short_16: YYIM3PJNFLEWZDXX · pith_short_8: YYIM3PJN

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/YYIM3PJNFLEWZDXXF5QDP2EV5G \
  | 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: c610cdbd2d2ac96c8ef72f6037e895e9bcca7801bdd4dc6f1dac97c2ca916f67

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f2093ed1f72d5cd0f1cf88167365e3f21a47fff71b3bec3d9efc00107b3652c3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-04-03T11:24:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7806bd667e2c524c1673f9308500f081ee4476b061d1674b9e6bd27932c71442"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0304023",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}