Pith Number

pith:QKQFNDIF

pith:2016:QKQFNDIFQJZYRFNTZZ3IY36N2Y

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Emergence, causation and storytelling: condensed matter physics and the limitations of the human mind

S. J. Blundell

arxiv:1604.06845 v1 · 2016-04-23 · physics.hist-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QKQFNDIFQJZYRFNTZZ3IY36N2Y}

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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	2026-05-18T01:16:23.832772Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

82a0568d0582738895b3ce768c6fcdd627a92a9f6d185cbb0798a67d047100fa

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.06845 · arxiv_version: 1604.06845v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.06845 · pith_short_12: QKQFNDIFQJZY · pith_short_16: QKQFNDIFQJZYRFNT · pith_short_8: QKQFNDIF

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/QKQFNDIFQJZYRFNTZZ3IY36N2Y \
  | 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: 82a0568d0582738895b3ce768c6fcdd627a92a9f6d185cbb0798a67d047100fa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "41b978cfa94d38e8bf830ff6fac3872367ff8c88843f0ba62867ce21bc3cf5b9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-23T01:31:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e0cf7dbc246b53a0e5d8ec69917176b3e86a7e9ecba391be68a07dc2ac7857c5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.06845",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}