Pith Number

pith:KEVMUIRR

pith:2026:KEVMUIRRTNEESM6SO7WPCTRQAB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Not all uncertainty is alike: volatility, stochasticity, and exploration

Payam Piray

arxiv:2605.19215 v1 · 2026-05-19 · cs.AI

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KEVMUIRRTNEESM6SO7WPCTRQAB}

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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	2026-05-20T01:05:33.955623Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

512aca22319b484933d277ecf14e300060c5a5e21b750f32eb015093ea24ec28

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.19215 · arxiv_version: 2605.19215v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.19215 · pith_short_12: KEVMUIRRTNEE · pith_short_16: KEVMUIRRTNEESM6S · pith_short_8: KEVMUIRR

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/KEVMUIRRTNEESM6SO7WPCTRQAB \
  | 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: 512aca22319b484933d277ecf14e300060c5a5e21b750f32eb015093ea24ec28

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d964c28c36a252f1ae5a853c4c01406a29b51f827c97cf6527dfa16ffcd06bd9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-19T00:38:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e2290de6592ada42b06ee3e027b77a4f8c1ecd048ab73aea8d892c1eec738f52"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.19215",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}