Pith Number

pith:5H2CNODK

pith:2025:5H2CNODKAVEAVZ3AN7DUSYJWIK

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Demon with dementia - the deterioration of information transcription

Emery Doucet, Maggie Williams, Sebastian Deffner

arxiv:2511.15691 v1 · 2025-11-19 · cond-mat.stat-mech

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5H2CNODKAVEAVZ3AN7DUSYJWIK}

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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	2026-05-25T02:02:10.377810Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e9f426b86a05480ae7606fc749613642a94fd2f1f296012c232a848ae5149b6f

Aliases

arxiv: 2511.15691 · arxiv_version: 2511.15691v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2511.15691 · pith_short_12: 5H2CNODKAVEA · pith_short_16: 5H2CNODKAVEAVZ3A · pith_short_8: 5H2CNODK

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/5H2CNODKAVEAVZ3AN7DUSYJWIK \
  | 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: e9f426b86a05480ae7606fc749613642a94fd2f1f296012c232a848ae5149b6f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "89ae80ea1e93aa0bf201639e74e22f6b0b87a3252616ee1ee419d7f6d7b62173",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2025-11-19T18:48:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b1dcd354bcf80830b13038c284f88c427c1ad6c4223435372ada9b3efeaa953d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2511.15691",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}