Pith Number

pith:EJSJO2EM

pith:2017:EJSJO2EMZD4BRWMXHBQL5CJJIG

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An Algorithmic Information Calculus for Causal Discovery and Reprogramming Systems

Angelika Schmidt, Francesco Marabita, Gordon Ball, Hector Zenil, Jesper Tegn\'er, Narsis A. Kiani, Szabolcs Elias, Yue Deng

arxiv:1709.05429 v11 · 2017-09-15 · q-bio.OT · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EJSJO2EMZD4BRWMXHBQL5CJJIG}

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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	2026-05-18T00:19:13.755673Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

226497688cc8f818d9973860be892941a83414a5650cbd03e020ed2cd628dc23

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.05429 · arxiv_version: 1709.05429v11 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.05429 · pith_short_12: EJSJO2EMZD4B · pith_short_16: EJSJO2EMZD4BRWMX · pith_short_8: EJSJO2EM

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EJSJO2EMZD4BRWMXHBQL5CJJIG \
  | 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: 226497688cc8f818d9973860be892941a83414a5650cbd03e020ed2cd628dc23

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "63199149c0316f5eff4474f45e9d4e8a428997817e69f30af6b831cfc7371a96",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.OT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-15T22:41:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d577fdbb071cff651bc7a537fa043b6d2a88f7028c456af2c2d7de23cd08be7b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.05429",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 11
  }
}