Pith Number

pith:BCYKZ7LJ

pith:2025:BCYKZ7LJDB2BFRTAGHLPR3LZSZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Concept of Possibility for Real-World Events

Daniel G. Schwartz

arxiv:2510.02655 v2 · 2025-10-03 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BCYKZ7LJDB2BFRTAGHLPR3LZSZ}

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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	2026-06-26T01:15:46.222940Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

08b0acfd69187412c66031d6f8ed79964e2e20978e5acd8b1e4019ac640f6245

Aliases

arxiv: 2510.02655 · arxiv_version: 2510.02655v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2510.02655 · pith_short_12: BCYKZ7LJDB2B · pith_short_16: BCYKZ7LJDB2BFRTA · pith_short_8: BCYKZ7LJ

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/BCYKZ7LJDB2BFRTAGHLPR3LZSZ \
  | 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: 08b0acfd69187412c66031d6f8ed79964e2e20978e5acd8b1e4019ac640f6245

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6f116aa14fe23b4622aa49c72b00c2e43c3d334bdf4acfd9b4d8550f78d9adb6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-10-03T01:15:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3c8b4dfef280c755a8da6ffa62e6a466fdc81a41a6e3403b7611c3cc71889f33"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2510.02655",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}