Pith Number

pith:NDXX3CTR

pith:2012:NDXX3CTRR43R5TBUSBREKT6TTN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Knowing when to stop: how noise frees us from determinism

Domenico Lippolis, Predrag Cvitanovic

arxiv:1206.5506 v1 · 2012-06-24 · nlin.CD

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NDXX3CTRR43R5TBUSBREKT6TTN}

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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	2026-05-18T00:55:52.430008Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

68ef7d8a718f371ecc349062454fd39b6e11f984ec382e2cbaa4fbbabe501041

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.5506 · arxiv_version: 1206.5506v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.5506 · pith_short_12: NDXX3CTRR43R · pith_short_16: NDXX3CTRR43R5TBU · pith_short_8: NDXX3CTR

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/NDXX3CTRR43R5TBUSBREKT6TTN \
  | 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: 68ef7d8a718f371ecc349062454fd39b6e11f984ec382e2cbaa4fbbabe501041

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "363b5eb5a3717c4525d7be3bb3187a3ff23eb23b5cb1a83bbc2933ede1bb31f7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "nlin.CD",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-24T14:54:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e145834d114af2d1e8bfea242b6f7b2b0f4463f384923c6f104253bbf1b4e2f5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.5506",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}