Pith Number

pith:QYR6AD5U

pith:2026:QYR6AD5UHHQHCSXDE7RL5BP52N

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Formalizing and falsifying causal pathways of rare events

Anahita Haghighat, Dominik Janzing

arxiv:2605.31254 v1 · 2026-05-29 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QYR6AD5UHHQHCSXDE7RL5BP52N}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-06-01T01:04:06.903842Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8623e00fb439e0714ae327e2be85fdd3678bdc0a5650df3fe30fa03373511be3

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.31254 · arxiv_version: 2605.31254v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.31254 · pith_short_12: QYR6AD5UHHQH · pith_short_16: QYR6AD5UHHQHCSXD · pith_short_8: QYR6AD5U

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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/QYR6AD5UHHQHCSXDE7RL5BP52N \
  | 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: 8623e00fb439e0714ae327e2be85fdd3678bdc0a5650df3fe30fa03373511be3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c4138b618271174d25d8c204a06bd4974e888728866671fe1665d502df59ee15",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-29T12:50:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a7a144c94620eba407c8309ca1317fe653853738a7b343af4edf574f0be262ee"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.31254",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}