Pith Number

pith:EALW7R3L

pith:2016:EALW7R3LU3XY72WRYER7UPREHP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Reducing complexity of autonomous control agents for verifiability

Hongyang Qu, Paolo Izzo, Sandor M. Veres

arxiv:1603.01202 v1 · 2016-03-03 · cs.SY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EALW7R3LU3XY72WRYER7UPREHP}

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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	2026-05-18T01:19:39.417292Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

20176fc76ba6ef8fead1c123fa3e243bcc7042d7dfe30175ce871419189c416d

Aliases

arxiv: 1603.01202 · arxiv_version: 1603.01202v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.01202 · pith_short_12: EALW7R3LU3XY · pith_short_16: EALW7R3LU3XY72WR · pith_short_8: EALW7R3L

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/EALW7R3LU3XY72WRYER7UPREHP \
  | 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: 20176fc76ba6ef8fead1c123fa3e243bcc7042d7dfe30175ce871419189c416d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ab96833900e63100df627ccb906d7c012c5585a204e248d1431b9218c4efa469",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SY",
    "submitted_at": "2016-03-03T17:59:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "03320475072cb873699c51070fefea45b59182458656c59396edb7368c27354b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1603.01202",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}