Pith Number

pith:AF2JKLPG

pith:2015:AF2JKLPGUCY3GCBMWM2TT3RYBD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Understanding interdependency through complex information sharing

Christopher J. Ellison, Fernando Rosas, Marian Verhelst, Sofie Pollin, Vasilis Ntranos

arxiv:1509.04555 v1 · 2015-09-15 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AF2JKLPGUCY3GCBMWM2TT3RYBD}

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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	2026-05-18T01:16:48.676291Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0174952de6a0b1b3082cb33539ee3808fd7d8df9a4cbe40e4bd954f824d6bc8e

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.04555 · arxiv_version: 1509.04555v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.04555 · pith_short_12: AF2JKLPGUCY3 · pith_short_16: AF2JKLPGUCY3GCBM · pith_short_8: AF2JKLPG

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/AF2JKLPGUCY3GCBMWM2TT3RYBD \
  | 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: 0174952de6a0b1b3082cb33539ee3808fd7d8df9a4cbe40e4bd954f824d6bc8e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fd4efe2191982f207a601c544c25da8278bc87ba21e2cbaaacb1a2f319f1375a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2015-09-15T14:00:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "46f0d5c6371b058166acdbe8fc4252d9e809e20cc77e57b476397291707f5a00"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.04555",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}