Pith Number

pith:AV4KNDSK

pith:2018:AV4KNDSKGIXF6YWAH6S3HDL7ID

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Creativity: Linchpin in the Quest for a Viable Theory of Cultural Evolution

Liane Gabora

arxiv:1807.08220 v3 · 2018-07-22 · q-bio.NC · q-bio.PE

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AV4KNDSKGIXF6YWAH6S3HDL7ID}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-17T23:51:19.676044Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0578a68e4a322e5f62c03fa5b38d7f40c213a0e732ed71a0a91cb5bb65f1cf89

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.08220 · arxiv_version: 1807.08220v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.08220 · pith_short_12: AV4KNDSKGIXF · pith_short_16: AV4KNDSKGIXF6YWA · pith_short_8: AV4KNDSK

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/AV4KNDSKGIXF6YWAH6S3HDL7ID \
  | 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: 0578a68e4a322e5f62c03fa5b38d7f40c213a0e732ed71a0a91cb5bb65f1cf89

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d78cc0d54cb1c590bd8df2258c4fe3f9db1b7b4b028bb3d2ca6bb97fa95caaf2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.PE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-22T01:14:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6c5c99b769c25892ec624145cad2dbd5ef4e5527e906deefabc196ef3328f10b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.08220",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}