Pith Number

pith:ASRIMKOR

pith:2026:ASRIMKORP2EVSGCAQFC6K5DTH4

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A Mathematical Theory of Value: a synthesis on goal-directed agency under resource constraints

Cheng Qian

arxiv:2606.12502 v1 · 2026-06-10 · physics.soc-ph · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ASRIMKORP2EVSGCAQFC6K5DTH4}

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4 Citations 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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Information Limits and Attractor Dynamics in Economies of Frontier LLM Agents: A Pre-Registered Test

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First computed	2026-06-12T00:07:52.614797Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

04a28629d17e895918408145e574733f2eb3f58be1cd4d6fbf3868bb264445a3

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.12502 · arxiv_version: 2606.12502v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.12502 · pith_short_12: ASRIMKORP2EV · pith_short_16: ASRIMKORP2EVSGCA · pith_short_8: ASRIMKOR

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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/ASRIMKORP2EVSGCAQFC6K5DTH4 \
  | 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: 04a28629d17e895918408145e574733f2eb3f58be1cd4d6fbf3868bb264445a3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c0e305541c0cc9f81bbac8d4867daff29dda552f3a4e8c8eefcf5b6a86c8c21c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-10T16:11:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "886eb0e6e528a08a47af1f3c3a686e5bf9e7c3bc9702110e7e5d462df6cd0a7e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.12502",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}