Pith Number

pith:AHFL6HG6

pith:2014:AHFL6HG6ET7KJ3FYMIVR73JZ7P

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Behavior, Organization, Substance: Three Gestalts of General Systems Theory

Vincenzo De Florio

arxiv:1403.4077 v2 · 2014-03-17 · cs.OH

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AHFL6HG6ET7KJ3FYMIVR73JZ7P}

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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	2026-05-18T00:58:12.005259Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

01cabf1cde24fea4ecb8622b1fed39fbe40def509f8ef7bbcb1be93fe81f1773

Aliases

arxiv: 1403.4077 · arxiv_version: 1403.4077v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1403.4077 · pith_short_12: AHFL6HG6ET7K · pith_short_16: AHFL6HG6ET7KJ3FY · pith_short_8: AHFL6HG6

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/AHFL6HG6ET7KJ3FYMIVR73JZ7P \
  | 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: 01cabf1cde24fea4ecb8622b1fed39fbe40def509f8ef7bbcb1be93fe81f1773

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d4b382556214e9bc95ddc5b6cc39d324ad0591059bc762e94597c1fc5a8190f8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.OH",
    "submitted_at": "2014-03-17T12:13:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6ab27a8da8ac3b4de0151969b8968e56d8d16c9030f73b0195b16bbc17ddc7f8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1403.4077",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}