Pith Number

pith:PCV4QXIW

pith:2014:PCV4QXIWIGSEASV3BK3ESAIFTK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Compositional Belief Update

Francis Jeffry Pelletier, James Delgrande, Yi Jin

arxiv:1401.3431 v1 · 2014-01-15 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PCV4QXIWIGSEASV3BK3ESAIFTK}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T03:02:09.241326Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

78abc85d1641a4404abb0ab64901059a8e4c0c97babc72192cb28673dfc3cca7

Aliases

arxiv: 1401.3431 · arxiv_version: 1401.3431v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1401.3431 · pith_short_12: PCV4QXIWIGSE · pith_short_16: PCV4QXIWIGSEASV3 · pith_short_8: PCV4QXIW

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/PCV4QXIWIGSEASV3BK3ESAIFTK \
  | 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: 78abc85d1641a4404abb0ab64901059a8e4c0c97babc72192cb28673dfc3cca7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "684da10c18cd12ac0a00138a7dd6eb00b4b5a9f8db401331384041c5e84e4974",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2014-01-15T04:48:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b06f61a9e9b3be08ca84808b167b3f5f9a0316be0c397dea9543ebb1700214ea"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1401.3431",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}