Pith Number

pith:7F4LMN56

pith:2015:7F4LMN56WCPXH6B6CFFP4J5UPZ

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Mental Wormholes and the Inner Workings of Creative Thought

Liane Gabora

arxiv:1509.06679 v2 · 2015-09-22 · q-bio.NC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7F4LMN56WCPXH6B6CFFP4J5UPZ}

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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	2026-05-17T23:40:36.958878Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f978b637beb09f73f83e114afe27b47e4d2a6112702bf4180c856b2b933b838c

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.06679 · arxiv_version: 1509.06679v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.06679 · pith_short_12: 7F4LMN56WCPX · pith_short_16: 7F4LMN56WCPXH6B6 · pith_short_8: 7F4LMN56

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/7F4LMN56WCPXH6B6CFFP4J5UPZ \
  | 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: f978b637beb09f73f83e114afe27b47e4d2a6112702bf4180c856b2b933b838c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8486000f1063b5b53e6f35cf7cf6e368ca0c0df764dd5003313b0edc8308d51d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2015-09-22T16:48:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "72219dbc2ddab7f52957ade445b37c833c409fd9b66c4356fa5feeb69e75f434"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.06679",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}