Pith Number

pith:HV4OOWWX

pith:2026:HV4OOWWXY6EG4MK3I64GAB5CGL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Limited belief propagation and contingent thinking

Andrew Ellis, Ran Spiegler

arxiv:2606.10681 v1 · 2026-06-09 · econ.TH

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HV4OOWWXY6EG4MK3I64GAB5CGL}

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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	2026-06-10T01:10:34.041904Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3d78e75ad7c7886e315b47b86007a232f8e40e125d7bbcf9208ff5abbdba595a

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.10681 · arxiv_version: 2606.10681v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.10681 · pith_short_12: HV4OOWWXY6EG · pith_short_16: HV4OOWWXY6EG4MK3 · pith_short_8: HV4OOWWX

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/HV4OOWWXY6EG4MK3I64GAB5CGL \
  | 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: 3d78e75ad7c7886e315b47b86007a232f8e40e125d7bbcf9208ff5abbdba595a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a744a4cb498238e0134e3447ffeff300c6a9d10c8d34ebc79fa89679651969c8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.TH",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-09T10:36:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ff22f79e22e4a25a3261efab1802a6c0f9635adb32c2befcd3f1e163f969da32"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.10681",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}