Pith Number

pith:L5ZEDBIA

pith:1994:L5ZEDBIACKA3JCAVMJVMQFCYEK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Optimum Paths for Systems Subject to Internal Noise

A. J. McKane, S. J. B. Einchcomb

arxiv:cond-mat/9410072 v1 · 1994-10-19 · cond-mat · chem-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L5ZEDBIACKA3JCAVMJVMQFCYEK}

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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	2026-05-18T01:39:35.465752Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5f724185001281b48815626ac8145822bb9b6893f0a64a69f6890e06cbcab388

Aliases

arxiv: cond-mat/9410072 · arxiv_version: cond-mat/9410072v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/9410072 · pith_short_12: L5ZEDBIACKA3 · pith_short_16: L5ZEDBIACKA3JCAV · pith_short_8: L5ZEDBIA

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/L5ZEDBIACKA3JCAVMJVMQFCYEK \
  | 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: 5f724185001281b48815626ac8145822bb9b6893f0a64a69f6890e06cbcab388

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "526018fe70071a50447353c4c027bf55787b0ccd5614a385af91463661595df0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "chem-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat",
    "submitted_at": "1994-10-19T11:00:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ad865a13a1877d46a4a2c6525e465b4183ce0d1ffe56c6e64a15c02dec2194a7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cond-mat/9410072",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}