Pith Number

pith:B3D6DFKR

pith:2010:B3D6DFKRYA4BDM3JC2HIB4QEQ6

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The Power of Nondeterminism in Self-Assembly

David Doty, Ehsan Chiniforooshan, Lila Kari, Nathaniel Bryans, Shinnosuke Seki

arxiv:1006.2897 v3 · 2010-06-15 · cs.CC · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B3D6DFKRYA4BDM3JC2HIB4QEQ6}

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4 Citations open

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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:34:45.983336Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0ec7e19551c03811b369168e80f20487b91c19ec99bd5cab68a32080f2d315a2

Aliases

arxiv: 1006.2897 · arxiv_version: 1006.2897v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1006.2897 · pith_short_12: B3D6DFKRYA4B · pith_short_16: B3D6DFKRYA4BDM3J · pith_short_8: B3D6DFKR

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/B3D6DFKRYA4BDM3JC2HIB4QEQ6 \
  | 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: 0ec7e19551c03811b369168e80f20487b91c19ec99bd5cab68a32080f2d315a2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "63e720880dac9a49db609e87e52face315b1a3947b5703d84ed04272f68ce019",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2010-06-15T06:24:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a7bfb247b6b3e5fb9eee7c7b835d7ab6e50cde44073eba016759f3ee095bc915"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1006.2897",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}