Pith Number

pith:5JGCDXTY

pith:2007:5JGCDXTYWHRKNBWSJZT4CBHAZJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Structure or Noise?

James P. Crutchfield, Susanne Still

arxiv:0708.0654 v2 · 2007-08-05 · physics.data-an · cond-mat.stat-mech · cs.IT · cs.LG · math-ph · math.IT · math.MP · math.ST · nlin.CD · stat.TH

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5JGCDXTYWHRKNBWSJZT4CBHAZJ}

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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	2026-05-18T01:05:14.085179Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ea4c21de78b1e2a686d24e67c104e0ca6599537f99cafcad8bc1e6e4f680284d

Aliases

arxiv: 0708.0654 · arxiv_version: 0708.0654v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0708.0654 · pith_short_12: 5JGCDXTYWHRK · pith_short_16: 5JGCDXTYWHRKNBWS · pith_short_8: 5JGCDXTY

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/5JGCDXTYWHRKNBWSJZT4CBHAZJ \
  | 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: ea4c21de78b1e2a686d24e67c104e0ca6599537f99cafcad8bc1e6e4f680284d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "116252c98b08e504976f1997306afce46e6b08c3fcaf76d3d2e20239452f63a6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech",
      "cs.IT",
      "cs.LG",
      "math-ph",
      "math.IT",
      "math.MP",
      "math.ST",
      "nlin.CD",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.data-an",
    "submitted_at": "2007-08-05T01:37:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "09759a0be1036eed9dd7b2a3ee016e43151a3e3509e5f3c3dabaf4f9cd55a0e2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0708.0654",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}