Pith Number

pith:NR4ASH3E

pith:2020:NR4ASH3EMQJSBFTAJNDGO5HDLI

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Algorithmic Causal Sets and the Wolfram Model

Jonathan Gorard

arxiv:2011.12174 v2 · 2020-11-23 · gr-qc · cs.DM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NR4ASH3EMQJSBFTAJNDGO5HDLI}

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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	2026-07-05T03:23:06.221427Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6c78091f6464132096604b466774e35a2da28cb226630be8eb38c096a5eb0688

Aliases

arxiv: 2011.12174 · arxiv_version: 2011.12174v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2011.12174 · pith_short_12: NR4ASH3EMQJS · pith_short_16: NR4ASH3EMQJSBFTA · pith_short_8: NR4ASH3E

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NR4ASH3EMQJSBFTAJNDGO5HDLI \
  | 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: 6c78091f6464132096604b466774e35a2da28cb226630be8eb38c096a5eb0688

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "579706d6d92c0cabeea238564e4ce4df813523ffd690af14c3590706b4c92f7e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2020-11-23T16:54:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7a288f0480933ab7a00a6916f21673435001cfc53f6849933a22ee88e7e44736"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2011.12174",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}