Pith Number

pith:KDDZ2S6X

pith:2026:KDDZ2S6X3HEKGBSCJZQ3IRADLL

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The Coherence Principle: A Falsifiable Prior for Model Selection from the Grammar of Theories

Carlos Pe\~na Garay, Fergus Simpson, Licia Verde, Raul Jimenez

arxiv:2606.18491 v1 · 2026-06-16 · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.IM · hep-ph · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KDDZ2S6X3HEKGBSCJZQ3IRADLL}

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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	2026-06-19T16:11:02.392162Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

50c79d4bd7d9c8a306424e61b444035af67a60d92738700f6dd880fe30497561

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.18491 · arxiv_version: 2606.18491v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.18491 · pith_short_12: KDDZ2S6X3HEK · pith_short_16: KDDZ2S6X3HEKGBSC · pith_short_8: KDDZ2S6X

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/KDDZ2S6X3HEKGBSCJZQ3IRADLL \
  | 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: 50c79d4bd7d9c8a306424e61b444035af67a60d92738700f6dd880fe30497561

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "af56b124a96411ad7dd33dfb89a26e93841672c3ee65685983cf1f2a1a473c00",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.IM",
      "hep-ph",
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-16T21:06:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "37e2533d0052354b64fd3173ca423d212ce377b370b636869603b25f15f5999d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.18491",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}