Pith Number

pith:FRYXCLRK

pith:2016:FRYXCLRKEMDXY7EH3AWMCXAJFH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A universal tradeoff between power, precision and speed in physical communication

Jascha Sohl-Dickstein, Subhaneil Lahiri, Surya Ganguli

arxiv:1603.07758 v1 · 2016-03-24 · cond-mat.stat-mech · cs.IT · math.IT · physics.bio-ph · q-bio.NC · stat.ML

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FRYXCLRKEMDXY7EH3AWMCXAJFH}

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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	2026-05-18T01:18:06.204471Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2c71712e2a23077c7c87d82cc15c0929e0398f133a28962ec4ee5677b99b2cc0

Aliases

arxiv: 1603.07758 · arxiv_version: 1603.07758v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.07758 · pith_short_12: FRYXCLRKEMDX · pith_short_16: FRYXCLRKEMDXY7EH · pith_short_8: FRYXCLRK

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/FRYXCLRKEMDXY7EH3AWMCXAJFH \
  | 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: 2c71712e2a23077c7c87d82cc15c0929e0398f133a28962ec4ee5677b99b2cc0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c3dba0517feeed8fab6314fcaef3c31a60e44fc6d8a7fd79ae5b1f737196de52",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "physics.bio-ph",
      "q-bio.NC",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2016-03-24T21:10:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "79fa9bc1b1a71ee60b83e1863597cf088d0a4a02c86fd8e3f3ad81bfd3edaff7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1603.07758",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}