Pith Number

pith:MAHINS4B

pith:2014:MAHINS4BCBWAKYDUREQ7ND6FMD

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Optimal high-level descriptions of dynamical systems

David H. Wolpert, Eric Libby, Joshua A. Grochow, Simon DeDeo

arxiv:1409.7403 v2 · 2014-09-25 · cs.IT · cond-mat.stat-mech · cs.AI · cs.CE · math.IT · q-bio.PE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MAHINS4BCBWAKYDUREQ7ND6FMD}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:44:11.770230Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

600e86cb81106c0560748921f68fc560ca9db000c853dd1266464adc6f1cab3a

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.7403 · arxiv_version: 1409.7403v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.7403 · pith_short_12: MAHINS4BCBWA · pith_short_16: MAHINS4BCBWAKYDU · pith_short_8: MAHINS4B

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MAHINS4BCBWAKYDUREQ7ND6FMD \
  | 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: 600e86cb81106c0560748921f68fc560ca9db000c853dd1266464adc6f1cab3a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "073427c46bf19f35816843f6af54002a30231f060f5716b521571536bc9b31d8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech",
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CE",
      "math.IT",
      "q-bio.PE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-25T20:01:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "46ecc25f707d3666cec4f1d06bc4efb3c5a01f3ab63572022c2b7e37b662da0a"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1409.7403",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}