Pith Number

pith:4L6SLHOV

pith:2026:4L6SLHOVJNVPNUCZDGPTAYNUY2

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Finite-Resolution Information from Collision Statistics

Alexander J. Gates

arxiv:2606.01218 v1 · 2026-05-31 · cs.IT · math.IT

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4L6SLHOVJNVPNUCZDGPTAYNUY2}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-06-02T02:04:27.085839Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e2fd259dd54b6af6d059199f3061b4c691a873698bdee504d7bb21468b81441b

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.01218 · arxiv_version: 2606.01218v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.01218 · pith_short_12: 4L6SLHOVJNVP · pith_short_16: 4L6SLHOVJNVPNUCZ · pith_short_8: 4L6SLHOV

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/4L6SLHOVJNVPNUCZDGPTAYNUY2 \
  | 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: e2fd259dd54b6af6d059199f3061b4c691a873698bdee504d7bb21468b81441b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0c21b28690024560b3bf7fb8dc885957c502c761dfd84a5558fab8fac4a36ab1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-31T13:11:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "734d60f1492d2cb2fc7898838bf5893257f1f1a3f86dceeffbac9b3e9228948a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.01218",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}