Pith Number

pith:I4GBJRWO

pith:2017:I4GBJRWO7S3FXLPEK5O62P7ENE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Formal approaches to a definition of agents

Martin Biehl

arxiv:1704.02716 v1 · 2017-04-10 · cs.AI · cs.IT · cs.MA · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I4GBJRWO7S3FXLPEK5O62P7ENE}

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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	2026-05-18T00:46:44.643280Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

470c14c6cefcb65bade4575ded3fe46905b3a63219edd9e794270aaecc412771

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.02716 · arxiv_version: 1704.02716v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.02716 · pith_short_12: I4GBJRWO7S3F · pith_short_16: I4GBJRWO7S3FXLPE · pith_short_8: I4GBJRWO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/I4GBJRWO7S3FXLPEK5O62P7ENE \
  | 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: 470c14c6cefcb65bade4575ded3fe46905b3a63219edd9e794270aaecc412771

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "99258ea26f4ffa043d756271b1a32af24fa5c444649fb6e349b0baa785d25e83",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "cs.MA",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-10T05:45:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "845bd186ebf4e951479e0ccceeee6695dbc88c2b1123d00973d19c736c29d786"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.02716",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}