Pith Number

pith:QIC7QKVK

pith:2026:QIC7QKVKPN2TJBV2MBE2R7Q3M6

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The Digital Afterlife of Empires: Four Language Models Converge on the Same Imperial Cartography of Writing

Hiroki Fukui

arxiv:2606.28325 v1 · 2026-04-30 · cs.CY · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QIC7QKVKPN2TJBV2MBE2R7Q3M6}

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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	2026-06-30T00:15:10.704669Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8205f82aaa7b753486ba6049a8fe1b67990b39af5016d668c5a6291b8096d94d

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.28325 · arxiv_version: 2606.28325v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.28325 · pith_short_12: QIC7QKVKPN2T · pith_short_16: QIC7QKVKPN2TJBV2 · pith_short_8: QIC7QKVK

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QIC7QKVKPN2TJBV2MBE2R7Q3M6 \
  | 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: 8205f82aaa7b753486ba6049a8fe1b67990b39af5016d668c5a6291b8096d94d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "79f9d4ea74280fc019e2e0132961df81747056d9bb9726e6c0a9d80d698ad1c7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-04-30T07:02:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "49d2b23a03aa5f3f3ebc30c76d27669ef19a2fcde41c1d338b59f67eddcc9f2d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.28325",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}