Pith Number

pith:4XGC4D2Y

pith:2026:4XGC4D2YMDDJCHG47Z2LKVNR7C

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Safety Invariants for Agents Orchestrating Irreversible State Transitions: A Four-Dimensional Formalism Evaluated on Public Ledgers

Zhaoming Yin

arxiv:2608.00783 v1 · 2026-08-01 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4XGC4D2YMDDJCHG47Z2LKVNR7C}

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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	2026-08-04T01:55:05.538877Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e5cc2e0f5860c6911cdcfe74b555b1f8a8becf3c7fdebf21564056afda6a0dea

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.00783 · arxiv_version: 2608.00783v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.00783 · pith_short_12: 4XGC4D2YMDDJ · pith_short_16: 4XGC4D2YMDDJCHG4 · pith_short_8: 4XGC4D2Y

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/4XGC4D2YMDDJCHG47Z2LKVNR7C \
  | 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: e5cc2e0f5860c6911cdcfe74b555b1f8a8becf3c7fdebf21564056afda6a0dea

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e7fe477da11adaf65db417ad6fcf6f8ad7973b29c4bdde990c2530ddde292d47",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-01T17:29:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f0141961db8aff19d2065d5eb8b6e53d49dda54f5cfdfc4c71c89a8172e84e7d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.00783",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}