Pith Number

pith:3XQ4QLTI

pith:2016:3XQ4QLTI6PSK4ONIPHP7SUBZNA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Ambiguity of Simplicity

Cina Aghamohammadi, James P. Crutchfield, John R. Mahoney

arxiv:1602.08646 v1 · 2016-02-27 · quant-ph · cond-mat.stat-mech · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3XQ4QLTI6PSK4ONIPHP7SUBZNA}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:19:52.318804Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dde1c82e68f3e4ae39a879dff95039683350d36df9b02bc52d88b79160277db0

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.08646 · arxiv_version: 1602.08646v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.08646 · pith_short_12: 3XQ4QLTI6PSK · pith_short_16: 3XQ4QLTI6PSK4ONI · pith_short_8: 3XQ4QLTI

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/3XQ4QLTI6PSK4ONIPHP7SUBZNA \
  | 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: dde1c82e68f3e4ae39a879dff95039683350d36df9b02bc52d88b79160277db0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d464f3f7ebe2830f6c83b2abb7f9d3a1da6257c40af9aaad278cfa33a9c1a383",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech",
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-27T22:43:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7515f0bac7a8131b869d4ede69dbb9226ef7102b2c53aa6ad073a9de0918f1b1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.08646",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}