Pith Number

pith:BEIWW3WP

pith:2017:BEIWW3WPDUYB4CQMN6JH3V3B7X

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Information ratchets exploiting spatially structured information reservoirs

Dominique Chu, Mikhail Prokopenko, Richard E. Spinney

arxiv:1710.10454 v2 · 2017-10-28 · cond-mat.stat-mech

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BEIWW3WPDUYB4CQMN6JH3V3B7X}

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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	2026-05-18T00:07:00.989384Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

09116b6ecf1d301e0a0c6f927dd761fdded253de0da960d3764f3a04d6d07210

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.10454 · arxiv_version: 1710.10454v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.10454 · pith_short_12: BEIWW3WPDUYB · pith_short_16: BEIWW3WPDUYB4CQM · pith_short_8: BEIWW3WP

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/BEIWW3WPDUYB4CQMN6JH3V3B7X \
  | 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: 09116b6ecf1d301e0a0c6f927dd761fdded253de0da960d3764f3a04d6d07210

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "433af3c5adf08ff35fe86384285a146390a2767269562edfbe51cd5d1b63cdff",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-28T12:07:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5da4664cd45b52b9806eff50d0b3885db396f35575a6610cb1a15f39f2148d7b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.10454",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}