Pith Number

pith:3M2L3CSI

pith:2019:3M2L3CSINNVYR6BTEC4AFIXFKB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Live Maxwell's Demon

Debra J. Searles, Howard J. M. Hanley

arxiv:1905.09091 v2 · 2019-05-22 · cond-mat.stat-mech

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3M2L3CSINNVYR6BTEC4AFIXFKB}

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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	2026-05-17T23:44:28.473303Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

db34bd8a486b6b88f83320b802a2e550471ee081d2cf057b389a695a73d2f145

Aliases

arxiv: 1905.09091 · arxiv_version: 1905.09091v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1905.09091 · pith_short_12: 3M2L3CSINNVY · pith_short_16: 3M2L3CSINNVYR6BT · pith_short_8: 3M2L3CSI

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/3M2L3CSINNVYR6BTEC4AFIXFKB \
  | 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: db34bd8a486b6b88f83320b802a2e550471ee081d2cf057b389a695a73d2f145

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8af01556f8ad758d043d3b62bb46bcf947ab3c416d0f4c4df01c93365d355c20",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2019-05-22T12:03:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "632a260ed8bba0653ac4f4829b6fc51225241378f02e4ffa226d7cc3fecb1805"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1905.09091",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}