Pith Number

pith:MGVXMSFB

pith:2014:MGVXMSFBWTAYXNZORFLB72L6O6

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Appropriate Causal Models and the Stability of Causation

Joseph Y. Halpern

arxiv:1412.3518 v2 · 2014-12-11 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MGVXMSFBWTAYXNZORFLB72L6O6}

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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	2026-05-17T23:53:14.019099Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

61ab7648a1b4c18bb72e89561fe97e7789d41d6bd0ae6fb281f4b5897639f718

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.3518 · arxiv_version: 1412.3518v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.3518 · pith_short_12: MGVXMSFBWTAY · pith_short_16: MGVXMSFBWTAYXNZO · pith_short_8: MGVXMSFB

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MGVXMSFBWTAYXNZORFLB72L6O6 \
  | 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: 61ab7648a1b4c18bb72e89561fe97e7789d41d6bd0ae6fb281f4b5897639f718

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9bd08204e9c02a6e9209bda7e57c55f3378933b82a2db81d35eaa25632a4e9e3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-11T02:16:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2c8691cf756947f3941ec755e1c0e1bd39010b21ca68914737b4457b77fde381"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.3518",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}