Pith Number

pith:NUH5RVGL

pith:2026:NUH5RVGLUL73HPTEDHJ4VPDP6H

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The LLMbda Calculus: AI Agents, Conversations, and Information Flow

Andrew D. Gordon, David Sands, Zac Garby

arxiv:2602.20064 v2 · 2026-02-23 · cs.PL · cs.AI · cs.CR

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\pithnumber{NUH5RVGLUL73HPTEDHJ4VPDP6H}

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First computed	2026-07-13T01:20:06.756977Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6d0fd8d4cba2ffb3be6419d3cabc6ff1e6568edc23ad50218aa3e216405692ff

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.20064 · arxiv_version: 2602.20064v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.20064 · pith_short_12: NUH5RVGLUL73 · pith_short_16: NUH5RVGLUL73HPTE · pith_short_8: NUH5RVGL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NUH5RVGLUL73HPTEDHJ4VPDP6H \
  | 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: 6d0fd8d4cba2ffb3be6419d3cabc6ff1e6568edc23ad50218aa3e216405692ff

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3e4841f1744f3fa190d1f0084cec7e0ac8d5029bbb681e3b7deebe4d50494578",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.PL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-23T17:22:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "462514d4147776ffeb0f6fc380b15b8f0620e57707f8d738f0f2539231619fb4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.20064",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}