Pith Number

pith:FM2U52QB

pith:2025:FM2U52QBMOEYFRTTKJ37WN3B6G

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fixed-Point Traps and Identity Emergence in Educational Feedback Systems

Faruk Alpay

arxiv:2505.21038 v1 · 2025-05-27 · math.GM

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FM2U52QBMOEYFRTTKJ37WN3B6G}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-05T11:11:23.038842Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2b354eea01638982c6735277fb3761f185b9ae6d9be81315a54138221b2ac031

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.21038 · arxiv_version: 2505.21038v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.21038 · pith_short_12: FM2U52QBMOEY · pith_short_16: FM2U52QBMOEYFRTT · pith_short_8: FM2U52QB

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/FM2U52QBMOEYFRTTKJ37WN3B6G \
  | 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: 2b354eea01638982c6735277fb3761f185b9ae6d9be81315a54138221b2ac031

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "83c22cf5c90ad57aeea955e063d55707c06bea8bbf00f8bbb319754b800a1d6a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.GM",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-27T11:19:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f70a652da272b9b8368d104e047b3e23def5e9300f9de6f25504198ee61df903"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.21038",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}