Pith Number

pith:EN7EAQVL

pith:2026:EN7EAQVLZBKCFMMUN2BBN53L2Z

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the (Intuitionistic) Logic of Next-Token Prediction

Paul Tarau (University of North Texas)

arxiv:2608.08145 v1 · 2026-08-08 · cs.LO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EN7EAQVLZBKCFMMUN2BBN53L2Z}

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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	2026-08-11T01:21:48.827084Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

237e4042abc85422b1946e8216f76bd655adc1b8f7ceac95f86740c04c9380a3

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.08145 · arxiv_version: 2608.08145v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.08145 · pith_short_12: EN7EAQVLZBKC · pith_short_16: EN7EAQVLZBKCFMMU · pith_short_8: EN7EAQVL

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/EN7EAQVLZBKCFMMUN2BBN53L2Z \
  | 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: 237e4042abc85422b1946e8216f76bd655adc1b8f7ceac95f86740c04c9380a3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "19d25183d52adbe960a77fea50d7d106122c5784dd4432d380be0a192ccce692",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LO",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-08T14:08:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "68e87b355f296b47ba8b07b360822f15e6f61d12a3adec27bd1d3795dfc5cf25"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.08145",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}