Pith Number

pith:Q7GJW2BL

pith:2017:Q7GJW2BLAXZPSCNIJBFC4FBLCC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Inter-Scale Information Flow as a Surrogate for Downward Causation That Maintains Spiral Waves

Hiroshi Ashikaga, Ryan G. James

arxiv:1711.10126 v1 · 2017-11-28 · nlin.PS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q7GJW2BLAXZPSCNIJBFC4FBLCC}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T00:09:30.157821Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

87cc9b682b05f2f909a8484a2e142b10ab1a6e5f3c74c94ca4df1184681c35f0

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.10126 · arxiv_version: 1711.10126v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.10126 · pith_short_12: Q7GJW2BLAXZP · pith_short_16: Q7GJW2BLAXZPSCNI · pith_short_8: Q7GJW2BL

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/Q7GJW2BLAXZPSCNIJBFC4FBLCC \
  | 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: 87cc9b682b05f2f909a8484a2e142b10ab1a6e5f3c74c94ca4df1184681c35f0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "268c2a49612f10fda731384d70b584fece7b119b9ba8e26a634b5ee49a9c83b6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "nlin.PS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-28T05:18:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ad0858288f8ce5bb915b990af132eb4864529c87e59ce3b3211434d17d6e13d7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.10126",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}