Pith Number

pith:2EJ6M446

pith:2026:2EJ6M4464Z5C5ELJID3UQY75SA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Combinatorial Approach to the Second Law

Rafael Diaz

arxiv:2605.16434 v1 · 2026-05-14 · math.CO · math-ph · math.MP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2EJ6M4464Z5C5ELJID3UQY75SA}

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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	2026-05-20T00:02:21.926738Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d113e6739ee67a2e916940f74863fd9017510faeae4965c27bbcee2a16c6ad5d

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.16434 · arxiv_version: 2605.16434v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.16434 · pith_short_12: 2EJ6M4464Z5C · pith_short_16: 2EJ6M4464Z5C5ELJ · pith_short_8: 2EJ6M446

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/2EJ6M4464Z5C5ELJID3UQY75SA \
  | 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: d113e6739ee67a2e916940f74863fd9017510faeae4965c27bbcee2a16c6ad5d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d1a38e4bf8232a9ee21d27ba9ef427dceb45f0ddeec9fc0e2ed9a56ae7725c41",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math-ph",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-14T20:41:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "424b9a3aa42a37213915ed981a5e1617d17f013794335bbb0f81dff35622d26d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.16434",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}