Pith Number

pith:FKQDLQ4R

pith:2025:FKQDLQ4RFSWDFE2QCLARM6EX64

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the possibility of deep alignment

Alex B. Kiefer

arxiv:2508.20465 v1 · 2025-08-28 · q-bio.NC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FKQDLQ4RFSWDFE2QCLARM6EX64}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-07-05T12:00:52.622885Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2aa035c3912cac32935012c1167897f713f13885dd87e00b05c83bf283372b5c

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.20465 · arxiv_version: 2508.20465v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.20465 · pith_short_12: FKQDLQ4RFSWD · pith_short_16: FKQDLQ4RFSWDFE2Q · pith_short_8: FKQDLQ4R

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/FKQDLQ4RFSWDFE2QCLARM6EX64 \
  | 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: 2aa035c3912cac32935012c1167897f713f13885dd87e00b05c83bf283372b5c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b37a3fbe79db00c5811aa06a8f2d906195548fd31ee9c9095348bf5de80c342d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-28T06:33:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5891a3a31b01ab98481e07ad73e7f6228cd5068dde5f5d95d84e88539b62f405"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.20465",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}