Pith Number

pith:P5XDWG7I

pith:2017:P5XDWG7IERJK2RVUV4BORJGL4F

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the correspondence between thermodynamics and inference

Colin H. LaMont, Paul A. Wiggins

arxiv:1706.01428 v5 · 2017-06-05 · math.ST · physics.data-an · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{P5XDWG7IERJK2RVUV4BORJGL4F}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-05-17T23:44:15.696662Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7f6e3b1be82452ad46b4af02e8a4cbe1641268d24930f986af4ce9084a0fda54

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.01428 · arxiv_version: 1706.01428v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.01428 · pith_short_12: P5XDWG7IERJK · pith_short_16: P5XDWG7IERJK2RVU · pith_short_8: P5XDWG7I

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/P5XDWG7IERJK2RVUV4BORJGL4F \
  | 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: 7f6e3b1be82452ad46b4af02e8a4cbe1641268d24930f986af4ce9084a0fda54

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "76972ffb551dea54f273cdad4fcdd1e7dfef140392b58132f5046ec7be1777ca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.data-an",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-05T17:27:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0a1e03c4bb505e11ba31615908aaa86734223e7e6d09373d529e355aaea5d642"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.01428",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}