Pith Number

pith:R5MIDMXA

pith:2025:R5MIDMXASK5XMYY5KHEVWPKJHB

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XML Prompting as Grammar-Constrained Interaction: Fixed-Point Semantics, Convergence Guarantees, and Human-AI Protocols

Faruk Alpay, Taylan Alpay

arxiv:2509.08182 v1 · 2025-09-09 · cs.PL · cs.AI · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R5MIDMXASK5XMYY5KHEVWPKJHB}

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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	2026-07-05T12:08:24.506934Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8f5881b2e092bb76631d51c95b3d49384edf1a0f95ea9a60532bddbe500a0f85

Aliases

arxiv: 2509.08182 · arxiv_version: 2509.08182v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.08182 · pith_short_12: R5MIDMXASK5X · pith_short_16: R5MIDMXASK5XMYY5 · pith_short_8: R5MIDMXA

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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/R5MIDMXASK5XMYY5KHEVWPKJHB \
  | 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: 8f5881b2e092bb76631d51c95b3d49384edf1a0f95ea9a60532bddbe500a0f85

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2329ee7bd97903e80455be5155c87aa0142828bc2116112caee74bda8159fdb9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.PL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-09-09T23:03:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "344fe225fb7486de000606dd776161334cdec08daa44e4e44408511e70f42745"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2509.08182",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}