Pith Number

pith:ZYQTPBVN

pith:2011:ZYQTPBVNE7SNSIYKQ5HX24DKNI

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Decoherence and its Role in the Modern Measurement Problem

David Wallace

arxiv:1111.2187 v1 · 2011-11-09 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZYQTPBVNE7SNSIYKQ5HX24DKNI}

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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	2026-05-18T01:59:43.202664Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ce213786ad27e4d9230a874f7d706a6a182f5f6cfac2130ba58633315bd11d58

Aliases

arxiv: 1111.2187 · arxiv_version: 1111.2187v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1111.2187 · pith_short_12: ZYQTPBVNE7SN · pith_short_16: ZYQTPBVNE7SNSIYK · pith_short_8: ZYQTPBVN

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/ZYQTPBVNE7SNSIYKQ5HX24DKNI \
  | 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: ce213786ad27e4d9230a874f7d706a6a182f5f6cfac2130ba58633315bd11d58

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a11bd6796a71fc359d7b948ecd34eee2f3a4b9d43f676046b495c7de76cb9458",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-11-09T12:21:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "392693621e35320d00d45693ee4f5a7605ff5f6fabb8043b3677a36dee786a89"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1111.2187",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}