Pith Number

pith:JGPXNVXL

pith:2026:JGPXNVXL3VLAEJY7SW63F2KLKV

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Same physical state, different collective dynamics: state encodings select synchronization outcomes in language-model agents

Katsuhiro Nishinari, Naoto Imura, Takahiro Ezaki

arxiv:2608.06968 v1 · 2026-08-07 · physics.soc-ph · cs.AI · cs.CY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JGPXNVXL3VLAEJY7SW63F2KLKV}

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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	2026-08-10T01:12:40.576237Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

499f76d6ebdd5602271f95bdb2e94b55652b04a79fa6f3d84e46f0c9a037db41

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.06968 · arxiv_version: 2608.06968v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.06968 · pith_short_12: JGPXNVXL3VLA · pith_short_16: JGPXNVXL3VLAEJY7 · pith_short_8: JGPXNVXL

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/JGPXNVXL3VLAEJY7SW63F2KLKV \
  | 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: 499f76d6ebdd5602271f95bdb2e94b55652b04a79fa6f3d84e46f0c9a037db41

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "32ca3728918e7dc1d6bf723d39c28f9f898cc4b70d3533c3140d93f8b39f7587",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-07T08:44:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "db23eb6c4aec2ba06b2b1bf6e4f8bd92221eea7981bb293797a540f13aa1bc0d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.06968",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}