Pith Number

pith:6BOXRT6V

pith:2011:6BOXRT6VJDJW555EAFYVG4HVME

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Two dimensional periodic box-ball system and its fundamental cycle

Shinsuke Iwao

arxiv:1102.4392 v3 · 2011-02-22 · math-ph · math.MP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6BOXRT6VJDJW555EAFYVG4HVME}

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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	2026-05-18T02:03:06.714760Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f05d78cfd548d36ef7a401715370f5611fbec95825a70265d2d2604ca45a5e79

Aliases

arxiv: 1102.4392 · arxiv_version: 1102.4392v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1102.4392 · pith_short_12: 6BOXRT6VJDJW · pith_short_16: 6BOXRT6VJDJW555E · pith_short_8: 6BOXRT6V

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6BOXRT6VJDJW555EAFYVG4HVME \
  | 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: f05d78cfd548d36ef7a401715370f5611fbec95825a70265d2d2604ca45a5e79

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "23a3bc0f23063f6d2257d0ac1ede1a6248c9f8808082ffe2781abb52fedbe51e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-02-22T02:55:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "360fc13bb734316e522d45c7fef5c78d1da47d26107c5da3d192fa44fc6cc812"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1102.4392",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}