Pith Number

pith:M3DJFIIQ

pith:2013:M3DJFIIQHO7HNGCKZ5FT3C4DRG

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Information-Based Physics and the Influence Network

Kevin H. Knuth

arxiv:1308.3337 v1 · 2013-08-15 · quant-ph · gr-qc · physics.pop-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M3DJFIIQHO7HNGCKZ5FT3C4DRG}

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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	2026-05-18T03:15:54.955478Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

66c692a1103bbe76984acf4b3d8b8389948fa60f8e08a20ccd98c8913a6567dc

Aliases

arxiv: 1308.3337 · arxiv_version: 1308.3337v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1308.3337 · pith_short_12: M3DJFIIQHO7H · pith_short_16: M3DJFIIQHO7HNGCK · pith_short_8: M3DJFIIQ

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/M3DJFIIQHO7HNGCKZ5FT3C4DRG \
  | 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: 66c692a1103bbe76984acf4b3d8b8389948fa60f8e08a20ccd98c8913a6567dc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3b1b9c3e1bd1c8c16871b7adda9108819f56d0f8414adea531c82ca5ee56b9b0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "physics.pop-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-08-15T08:35:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4c33bc52716c26c7028dce882e5eb9fa7b9e45f49db235807cc4184fed67ac94"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1308.3337",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}