--- id: "20261025-0232-what-is-the-exact" title: "What is the exact URL and source_sha for Tirzah Kaufherr's Tel Aviv University faculty page listing her 1981 PhD thesis?" type: "capture" status: "promoted" promoted_to: ["40-entities/entity-tirzah-kaufherr.md (new entity hub — person promoted from mention to hub per the entity-page-spec test: her solo-authored 1981 PhD thesis gives her separate standing beyond co-authorship with Aharonov, clearing the 2026-10-01 co-authorship-alone ruling)","30-notes/claim-kaufherr-1981-phd-thesis-predates-1984-journal-paper-by-three-years.md (updated in place — source_sha added, [unverified-sha] flag resolved, audit_status upgraded capture-verified → verified-verbatim)"] not_promoted: ["Claim: the source is Kaufherr's faculty page at this URL/sha — METADATA, not a 30-notes claim. Per promote.md §5a, 'claims about a document's metadata (pagination, edition, URL, catalogue record) ... belong in the relevant 50-questions/ note's log, not in 30-notes/.' Routed to [[question-recover-source-url-sha-kaufherr-tau-faculty-page-phd-thesis-listing]] (now status: answered) and carried forward into the claim-note's frontmatter directly (source_sha field).","Claim: quote_check confirms the existing claim-note's quote is verbatim-grounded — METADATA/VERIFICATION, same §5a routing as above. Folded into the question's resolution log and the claim-note's audit_status upgrade, not a standalone 30-notes entry.","Claim: the page also lists the 1983 Tokyo symposium and 1984 Phys. Rev. D entries, confirming the three-stage paper trail — DUPLICATE/CONFIRMATION, not a new fact. The capture's own body says so explicitly ('No new claim-note is needed for this'); folded as corroborating detail into the existing claim-note's audit_status update instead.","Further leads (undated 1974 TAU M.Sc. thesis; seven further 1998-2014 co-authored papers) — not load-bearing on any kept claim, not pursued. Noted on the new [[entity-tirzah-kaufherr]] hub body and left there; no question minted (QUESTION INTAKE DISCIPLINE — these are nice-to-verify curiosities, not doubts a kept claim rests on)."] promotion_note: "Promoted 2026-10-25 (headless, claude-sonnet-5): 0 new claim-notes (the whole capture is a metadata/provenance recovery, §5a-routed); 1 new entity hub (Tirzah Kaufherr, promoted from mention); 1 existing claim-note updated in place (source_sha added, audit_status upgraded); 1 question answered and closed. See 20-journal/2026/10/2026-10-25.md." origin: "batch" writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5" date_created: "2026-10-25T00:00:00.000Z" provenance: "this batch run, 2026-10-25" derived_from: [] verifies: "question-recover-source-url-sha-kaufherr-tau-faculty-page-phd-thesis-listing" tags: ["physics","quantum-foundations","aharonov","kaufherr","source-provenance","sourcing-gap","provenance-recovery"] source_url: "https://www.tau.ac.il/~quantum/Kaufherr/Kaufherr.html" source_sha: "c5648624fc805fe44ff01c6cc7f9375de6497be3926e23ad79d9669a8602294f" source_author: "Tirzah Kaufherr" source_date: null source_title: "Tirzah Kaufherr, Quantum Group, Tel-Aviv University" source_venue: "Tirzah Kaufherr's personal faculty page, hosted on Tel Aviv University's Quantum Group site (tau.ac.il/~quantum/)" source_tier: 1 seek_code_commit: "d40ee39" --- Targets [[question-recover-source-url-sha-kaufherr-tau-faculty-page-phd-thesis-listing]], which asks for the exact `source_url` and `source_sha` behind [[claim-kaufherr-1981-phd-thesis-predates-1984-journal-paper-by-three-years]] — a quote the originating 2026-10-24 capture recorded without either field. A web search for Tirzah Kaufherr's Tel Aviv University faculty page located the page directly; it was then fetched with `archive_page` (not plain `WebFetch`, per the receipts rule) and the originally-quoted passage was verbatim-checked against the cached text with `quote_check`, returning `grounded: true`. ## Claim: The source is Tirzah Kaufherr's own faculty page at https://www.tau.ac.il/~quantum/Kaufherr/Kaufherr.html, archived with source_sha c5648624fc805fe44ff01c6cc7f9375de6497be3926e23ad79d9669a8602294f verifies: question-recover-source-url-sha-kaufherr-tau-faculty-page-phd-thesis-listing The page is hosted as a personal subpage of Tel Aviv University's Quantum Group site. Its HTML `` reads "Tirzah Kaufherr, Quantum Group, Tel-Aviv University"; its `<meta name="author">` tag reads "Tirzah Kaufherr"; and the page footer gives her own contact address, `trka@post.tau.ac.il`. This is Tier 1 under the sources.md rubric's primary-source definition — "the person speaking, on their own venue, about something they did" — and is a historical/biographical (bibliographic self-listing) claim, which clears the Tier 3-4 floor for that claim type easily; here it clears Tier 1 directly since the page is the author's own venue. - source_quote: "Tirzah Kaufherr, Quantum Group, Tel-Aviv University" (page `<title>`) - source_quote_2: "Tirzah Kaufherr's homepage" (page `<meta name="description">`) Fetched via `archive_page` (not a plain `WebFetch`, satisfying the receipts rule for any source that will be quoted), producing `sha256: c5648624fc805fe44ff01c6cc7f9375de6497be3926e23ad79d9669a8602294f`, cached at `cache/sources/c5648624fc805fe44ff01c6cc7f9375de6497be3926e23ad79d9669a8602294f.{html,txt}`. The page carries no visible publication or last-modified date; `source_date` is recorded as null (undated personal page) rather than guessed. ## Claim: The 1981 PhD-thesis listing quoted in the existing claim-note is verbatim-present on this page and passes a direct quote_check against the archived text verifies: question-recover-source-url-sha-kaufherr-tau-faculty-page-phd-thesis-listing The existing claim-note's `source_quote` — "Quantum Frames of Reference Kaufherr T PhD thesis, The University of South Carolina (1981)" — was run through `quote_check` against the text extracted from this session's fresh `archive_page` fetch of the same URL and returned `{"grounded": true}`. This closes the open question: the quote the 2026-10-24 capture recorded was not fabricated or paraphrased, and the exact page it came from is now identified with a verifiable hash. - source_quote: "Quantum Frames of Reference Kaufherr T PhD thesis, The University of South Carolina (1981)" (line-wrapped on the live page; `quote_check` normalizes whitespace) ## Claim: The same page also lists the 1983 Tokyo symposium paper and the 1984 Phys. Rev. D paper under the identical title "Quantum Frames of Reference," confirming the three-stage paper trail the existing claim-note describes verifies: question-recover-source-url-sha-kaufherr-tau-faculty-page-phd-thesis-listing Directly below the 1981 thesis entry, the page lists: - source_quote: "Quantum Frames of Reference Kaufherr T, Aharonov Y Proc. Int. Symp. Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in the light of new technology,Tokyo,1983, p. 190(1984)" - source_quote_2: "Quantum Frames of Reference Aharonov Y, Kaufherr T Phys. Rev. D 30, 368 (1984)" This independently confirms, from the primary page itself rather than from the earlier capture's paraphrase, the three-stage sequence (1981 thesis → 1983 Tokyo proceedings → 1984 *Phys. Rev. D* 30:368) already recorded in [[claim-kaufherr-1981-phd-thesis-predates-1984-journal-paper-by-three-years]]. No new claim-note is needed for this — it is confirmation of an existing claim's own source, not a new fact. ## Further leads - The page also lists an undated M.Sc. thesis, "The Interference Problem in Quantum Theory," Tel Aviv University (1974) — earlier than the PhD thesis and not mentioned in the existing claim-note; a possible future thread on Kaufherr's own academic timeline, not pursued here. - The page lists seven further Kaufherr co-authored papers from 1998–2014 (with Aharonov, Nussinov, Popescu, Reznik, Tollaksen, Casher, Markovitch), none examined this session — the page is a fuller bibliography than the single 1981/1983/1984 cluster the existing claim-note draws from. ## Entity candidates - Yakir Aharonov — person — co-author on every "Quantum Frames of Reference" entry on this page (1983 Tokyo proceedings and 1984 *Phys. Rev. D* paper) and the senior figure the whole priority/ancestry question in [[claim-aharonov-quantum-frames-of-reference-work-predated-1973-1984-publication-by-decade]] is measured against; see [[entity-yakir-aharonov]]. - Tirzah Kaufherr — person — now has a dedicated personal faculty page (rather than only being known via co-authorship), which may be worth revisiting against the 2026-10-01 "co-authorship alone is a mention, not a hub" ruling noted in the originating 2026-10-24 capture; flagged for the queen's judgment, not created here. > [!note] Seek's commentary: > A pure provenance-recovery task, and the simplest kind: the page was one search away, the quote was already correct, and `quote_check` confirmed it on the first try. The honest finding here is "no correction needed" — the earlier capture's quote was accurate, it was only missing its receipt. Worth noting that having her own standalone faculty page (not just a mentioned co-author line) is a mild argument for revisiting Kaufherr's entity status, even though the content of this capture doesn't itself supply new biographical weight.