Pith Number

pith:MFIZ7NZE

pith:2024:MFIZ7NZEM553WKBRCDEG5HEFC4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The use of knowledge in open-ended systems

Abigail Devereaux, Roger Koppl

arxiv:2412.00011 v1 · 2024-11-13 · cs.NE · cs.AI · cs.LO · econ.TH

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MFIZ7NZEM553WKBRCDEG5HEFC4}

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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	2026-07-05T09:42:34.541150Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

61519fb724677bbb283110c86e9c851736eaaea20dd3dbe87fd4471872b20c98

Aliases

arxiv: 2412.00011 · arxiv_version: 2412.00011v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.00011 · pith_short_12: MFIZ7NZEM553 · pith_short_16: MFIZ7NZEM553WKBR · pith_short_8: MFIZ7NZE

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/MFIZ7NZEM553WKBRCDEG5HEFC4 \
  | 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: 61519fb724677bbb283110c86e9c851736eaaea20dd3dbe87fd4471872b20c98

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "166050a206f6f661611a93d53f6dd9478abefc6dc959267bb47634788c05a7cd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LO",
      "econ.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NE",
    "submitted_at": "2024-11-13T23:27:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c62f9691d1f5d95a372cb48028b6f8141319eda05e3dc50c4af775797a59086c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2412.00011",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}