Pith Number

pith:FFCQRRTB

pith:2021:FFCQRRTBTVDZWH3O6VKJAXSH2P

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Decomposing the local arrow of time in interacting systems

Caroline M. Holmes, Christopher W. Lynn, David J. Schwab, William Bialek

arxiv:2112.14721 v2 · 2021-12-29 · cond-mat.stat-mech · q-bio.NC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FFCQRRTBTVDZWH3O6VKJAXSH2P}

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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	2026-07-05T04:59:17.982189Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

294508c6619d479b1f6ef554905e47d3cc3cdd8c86d0af51c5ba095761e9b3ae

Aliases

arxiv: 2112.14721 · arxiv_version: 2112.14721v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2112.14721 · pith_short_12: FFCQRRTBTVDZ · pith_short_16: FFCQRRTBTVDZWH3O · pith_short_8: FFCQRRTB

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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/FFCQRRTBTVDZWH3O6VKJAXSH2P \
  | 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: 294508c6619d479b1f6ef554905e47d3cc3cdd8c86d0af51c5ba095761e9b3ae

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8ed480915ce21d48b12358b90be84954ff15afe3154e85abef3d299fcaff0325",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.NC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2021-12-29T18:25:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "40bee31b4a52d353771f215a42c5734cef572ba97968dfe05211176d0355c689"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2112.14721",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}