Pith Number

pith:NG6FATAS

pith:2012:NG6FATASYXXK6XVHRY5XRZCGS5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Temporal Logic of Causal Structures

Bud Mishra, Samantha Kleinberg

arxiv:1205.2634 v1 · 2012-05-09 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NG6FATASYXXK6XVHRY5XRZCGS5}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:55:47.747606Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

69bc504c12c5eeaf5ea78e3b78e446976d2265410b62b1a72eae0a422eed29dc

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.2634 · arxiv_version: 1205.2634v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.2634 · pith_short_12: NG6FATASYXXK · pith_short_16: NG6FATASYXXK6XVH · pith_short_8: NG6FATAS

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/NG6FATASYXXK6XVHRY5XRZCGS5 \
  | 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: 69bc504c12c5eeaf5ea78e3b78e446976d2265410b62b1a72eae0a422eed29dc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "747623cae88b4304f05a06a5c9a5d975dfd6e92951f24564bb745a1f2a40527c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-09T15:45:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b9c7abcee3086b0ff853e4d2a3effc9ac0c83c5656693ae1cba8b39c1229f503"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.2634",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}