Pith Number

pith:AF5VM3NZ

pith:2017:AF5VM3NZJ4BER3ZHRWIOEFUAPA

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Trimming the Independent Fat: Sufficient Statistics, Mutual Information, and Predictability from Effective Channel States

James P. Crutchfield, John R. Mahoney, Ryan G. James

arxiv:1702.01831 v1 · 2017-02-07 · cond-mat.stat-mech · cs.IT · math.IT · nlin.CD · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AF5VM3NZJ4BER3ZHRWIOEFUAPA}

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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	2026-05-18T00:42:01.961606Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

017b566db94f0248ef278d90e216807823b8b955efb1abfae880b57f123cdc92

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.01831 · arxiv_version: 1702.01831v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.01831 · pith_short_12: AF5VM3NZJ4BE · pith_short_16: AF5VM3NZJ4BER3ZH · pith_short_8: AF5VM3NZ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/AF5VM3NZJ4BER3ZHRWIOEFUAPA \
  | 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: 017b566db94f0248ef278d90e216807823b8b955efb1abfae880b57f123cdc92

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ad43d5bd6762fde1a70e6945e998fdd84de4c7bfa7dc154197d9cc41c001e62c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "nlin.CD",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-07T00:52:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e0ac76614de92d0af0a8c78a87944dd0c3de80efc6a73432afd9a846e1503a96"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.01831",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}