Pith Number

pith:7SJSXFQ4

pith:2016:7SJSXFQ4TWGRMBZGIJCVGYF2FB

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Correlation-powered Information Engines and the Thermodynamics of Self-Correction

Alexander B. Boyd, Dibyendu Mandal, James P. Crutchfield

arxiv:1606.08506 v2 · 2016-06-27 · cond-mat.stat-mech · cs.IT · math.DS · math.IT · nlin.CD · physics.bio-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7SJSXFQ4TWGRMBZGIJCVGYF2FB}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:51:48.385267Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fc932b961c9d8d16072642455360ba28794038dbd00936aae9ea4f1feacf2913

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.08506 · arxiv_version: 1606.08506v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.08506 · pith_short_12: 7SJSXFQ4TWGR · pith_short_16: 7SJSXFQ4TWGRMBZG · pith_short_8: 7SJSXFQ4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7SJSXFQ4TWGRMBZGIJCVGYF2FB \
  | 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: fc932b961c9d8d16072642455360ba28794038dbd00936aae9ea4f1feacf2913

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bce4b40f8653e5d864a7671c7b84d1b8a5f0e123451f130f6d478078a04023c0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.DS",
      "math.IT",
      "nlin.CD",
      "physics.bio-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-27T22:43:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cdc5cc1e48a43bfaa1616e73ec8cccde42ab27ef50d6cb77a0aa5879a010204f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.08506",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}