Pith Number

pith:KQY5KY7X

pith:2018:KQY5KY7XWA6FEX4L5EOYOU5RVG

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Introduction to Dialectical Nets

Robert E. Kent

arxiv:1810.05961 v1 · 2018-10-14 · cs.LO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KQY5KY7XWA6FEX4L5EOYOU5RVG}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:03:21.844806Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5431d563f7b03c525f8be91d8753b1a9a9e76365b8147caf96b4bb4a39b7b7c9

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.05961 · arxiv_version: 1810.05961v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.05961 · pith_short_12: KQY5KY7XWA6F · pith_short_16: KQY5KY7XWA6FEX4L · pith_short_8: KQY5KY7X

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/KQY5KY7XWA6FEX4L5EOYOU5RVG \
  | 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: 5431d563f7b03c525f8be91d8753b1a9a9e76365b8147caf96b4bb4a39b7b7c9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dfc75900888bd431bc9f7b20a97bf7f3bf2b115133da9f0a39b29cc54a312c45",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LO",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-14T03:34:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b73f874ff5874bb72170261cbd26645fec7482ddd4f273a58576ee929ff220f7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.05961",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}