Pith Number

pith:CISHJ4E5

pith:2016:CISHJ4E5HBVPPHCOYRSKCKKPWG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The deterministic information bottleneck

David J Schwab, DJ Strouse

arxiv:1604.00268 v2 · 2016-04-01 · q-bio.NC · cond-mat.stat-mech · cs.IT · math.IT · q-bio.QM · stat.ML

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CISHJ4E5HBVPPHCOYRSKCKKPWG}

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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	2026-05-18T00:50:13.687135Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

122474f09d386af79c4ec464a1294fb1bbafb67dacd55712ca21e7b907cf203e

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.00268 · arxiv_version: 1604.00268v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.00268 · pith_short_12: CISHJ4E5HBVP · pith_short_16: CISHJ4E5HBVPPHCO · pith_short_8: CISHJ4E5

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/CISHJ4E5HBVPPHCOYRSKCKKPWG \
  | 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: 122474f09d386af79c4ec464a1294fb1bbafb67dacd55712ca21e7b907cf203e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "509f92d0670eb49f9f073e6f95e12a1f9d3103b3315c020589aa52fded6ee589",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech",
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "q-bio.QM",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-01T14:48:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5589f2a8c8a9c25681348670790416d95fcbc72fc538185bdb667b493c37fe43"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.00268",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}