Pith Number

pith:PUTDKNIC

pith:2026:PUTDKNICPP6TKNP3POXIN2E7MX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Blind to the Pivotal Vote: Aggregate Independence Metrics Miss Where Verification Actually Helps

Yang Shu

arxiv:2608.06940 v1 · 2026-08-07 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PUTDKNICPP6TKNP3POXIN2E7MX}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-08-10T01:12:35.526224Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7d263535027bfd3535fb7bae86e89f65f8419ab05a56432d76d0d8b24b8ebf41

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.06940 · arxiv_version: 2608.06940v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.06940 · pith_short_12: PUTDKNICPP6T · pith_short_16: PUTDKNICPP6TKNP3 · pith_short_8: PUTDKNIC

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/PUTDKNICPP6TKNP3POXIN2E7MX \
  | 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: 7d263535027bfd3535fb7bae86e89f65f8419ab05a56432d76d0d8b24b8ebf41

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "883e6f2d835d80ab273938014cec7980bcca20ecc33db9756c1a2f35e73e5cf6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-07T08:14:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0eed2a0e097f9d2947d65232d97b7d37cc084c131b3f91c5f21d357f42fda5c2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.06940",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}