Pith Number

pith:45BIVCU6

pith:2015:45BIVCU6KYGWQRPVQ6YR6RIJZH

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A few reflections on the quality of emergence in complex collective systems

Vincenzo De Florio

arxiv:1506.01821 v2 · 2015-06-05 · cs.OH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{45BIVCU6KYGWQRPVQ6YR6RIJZH}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:09:29.805898Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e7428a8a9e560d6845f587b11f4509c9f986f0c444e1cba77695f2c37c19eba0

Aliases

arxiv: 1506.01821 · arxiv_version: 1506.01821v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.01821 · pith_short_12: 45BIVCU6KYGW · pith_short_16: 45BIVCU6KYGWQRPV · pith_short_8: 45BIVCU6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/45BIVCU6KYGWQRPVQ6YR6RIJZH \
  | 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: e7428a8a9e560d6845f587b11f4509c9f986f0c444e1cba77695f2c37c19eba0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "841cb1addb7201b5ff1f261fb9b322bc00e3e3b122d1d994b733299c274e41ac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.OH",
    "submitted_at": "2015-06-05T08:58:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cf78a1c5d5b55f73333132d95e06ce43e949541094bde0a9766af7139840b3e8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1506.01821",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}