Pith Number

pith:K6BTXWGV

pith:2014:K6BTXWGV62SME46ZJZUTJOMRFU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Descriptive Control Theory: A Proposal

Sicun Gao

arxiv:1409.3560 v2 · 2014-09-11 · cs.LO · cs.SY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{K6BTXWGV62SME46ZJZUTJOMRFU}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:42:53.527513Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

57833bd8d5f6a4c273d94e6934b9912d0f260b5dea204055bbe56b864c286945

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.3560 · arxiv_version: 1409.3560v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.3560 · pith_short_12: K6BTXWGV62SM · pith_short_16: K6BTXWGV62SME46Z · pith_short_8: K6BTXWGV

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/K6BTXWGV62SME46ZJZUTJOMRFU \
  | 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: 57833bd8d5f6a4c273d94e6934b9912d0f260b5dea204055bbe56b864c286945

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5d2f7a3efadb64b5cccffc03ad351b07b9b755de765354bca591b7d2a025ce84",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LO",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-11T19:55:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "43a3aad8bb82ca8cf095430e399b04b839166406c46a6b1e1617e2c20df2758a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.3560",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}