Pith Number

pith:COJAIN2Z

pith:2026:COJAIN2ZRKXVAVZOPNTE3EIBZA

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Mesh Inference: A Formal Model of Collective Intelligence Without a Center

Hongwei Xu

arxiv:2606.19537 v1 · 2026-06-17 · cs.MA · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{COJAIN2ZRKXVAVZOPNTE3EIBZA}

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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.

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First computed	2026-06-19T16:12:28.145894Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

13920437598aaf50572e7b664d9101c824b41b51978f0accde901827c7358d92

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.19537 · arxiv_version: 2606.19537v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.19537 · pith_short_12: COJAIN2ZRKXV · pith_short_16: COJAIN2ZRKXVAVZO · pith_short_8: COJAIN2Z

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/COJAIN2ZRKXVAVZOPNTE3EIBZA \
  | 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: 13920437598aaf50572e7b664d9101c824b41b51978f0accde901827c7358d92

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9347d74c930c0de2cef404a23e0b25d7bc0db4304fd60bb66cdb901e52d16dac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.MA",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-17T19:29:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1406c772ef3b37e8e50c84eec5d83fa14260e76d698a9c15007dc85c5d126880"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.19537",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}