Pith Number

pith:AZA5SCMS

pith:2018:AZA5SCMS4TRB67GWPH325WN66N

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Realizing Information Erasure in Finite Time

James Melbourne, Murti Salapaka, Saurav Talukdar

arxiv:1809.09216 v1 · 2018-09-24 · cond-mat.stat-mech · math.OC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AZA5SCMS4TRB67GWPH325WN66N}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:04:54.001717Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0641d90992e4e21f7cd679f7aed9bef3705ca094f7eac7d6cacc0b4c879bf614

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.09216 · arxiv_version: 1809.09216v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.09216 · pith_short_12: AZA5SCMS4TRB · pith_short_16: AZA5SCMS4TRB67GW · pith_short_8: AZA5SCMS

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/AZA5SCMS4TRB67GWPH325WN66N \
  | 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: 0641d90992e4e21f7cd679f7aed9bef3705ca094f7eac7d6cacc0b4c879bf614

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3c7a93246b5ccdd8ccb9c36caf7dc93d04c7e523dbe2d7feb9e039a1d915a1cf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-24T20:56:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a989611ea83bfbc087d271a3e4398df8a20ec6cfe75dad63c0dfad4042101255"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.09216",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}