Pith Number

pith:C353ASXW

pith:2010:C353ASXWWGKVQOXDBIS2TSULCL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Algorithmic Thermodynamics

John C. Baez, Mike Stay

arxiv:1010.2067 v2 · 2010-10-11 · math-ph · cs.IT · math.IT · math.MP · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C353ASXWWGKVQOXDBIS2TSULCL}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T03:32:32.054144Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

16fbb04af6b195583ae30a25a9ca8b12fe882bfddeab9ebc64c47dbd20aee5ed

Aliases

arxiv: 1010.2067 · arxiv_version: 1010.2067v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1010.2067 · pith_short_12: C353ASXWWGKV · pith_short_16: C353ASXWWGKVQOXD · pith_short_8: C353ASXW

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/C353ASXWWGKVQOXDBIS2TSULCL \
  | 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: 16fbb04af6b195583ae30a25a9ca8b12fe882bfddeab9ebc64c47dbd20aee5ed

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ff788ecf5e780e20ce3b83508872b2345842f56f05dc3889d3b4e9b005acf4c5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "math.MP",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-10-11T11:31:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "04fb0f0c100b0348ffb09b478ceaf8542c54b6d7c66357856124ca13c158664c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1010.2067",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}