Pith Number

pith:BVP2ZL2R

pith:2017:BVP2ZL2RUQMZOZAHSSRZLAOQ4D

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Reasoning in Systems with Elements that Randomly Switch Characteristics

Subhash Kak

arxiv:1712.04909 v1 · 2017-12-13 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BVP2ZL2RUQMZOZAHSSRZLAOQ4D}

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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	2026-05-18T00:28:03.192379Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0d5facaf51a41997640794a39581d0e0eddc4abf290894a5e0633b643b9701f5

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.04909 · arxiv_version: 1712.04909v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.04909 · pith_short_12: BVP2ZL2RUQMZ · pith_short_16: BVP2ZL2RUQMZOZAH · pith_short_8: BVP2ZL2R

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/BVP2ZL2RUQMZOZAHSSRZLAOQ4D \
  | 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: 0d5facaf51a41997640794a39581d0e0eddc4abf290894a5e0633b643b9701f5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2afe3ea8e3c4e63901268c1e9c629409a8b6bbf02aae36a17ba34391aadafb78",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-13T18:25:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "494064030c4be264943629ac8ccc6830bacbd22f21072db4b6ee97e073e67dae"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.04909",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}