Pith Number

pith:RKA4W4CY

pith:2014:RKA4W4CY4GWDSZIJBD4XOW5ZFQ

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Causal Network Inference by Optimal Causation Entropy

Dane Taylor, Erik M. Bollt, Jie Sun

arxiv:1401.7574 v2 · 2014-01-29 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RKA4W4CY4GWDSZIJBD4XOW5ZFQ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T02:07:32.098771Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8a81cb7058e1ac39650908f9775bb92c06787c3b3cf7758217807d85943bb273

Aliases

arxiv: 1401.7574 · arxiv_version: 1401.7574v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1401.7574 · pith_short_12: RKA4W4CY4GWD · pith_short_16: RKA4W4CY4GWDSZIJ · pith_short_8: RKA4W4CY

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/RKA4W4CY4GWDSZIJBD4XOW5ZFQ \
  | 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: 8a81cb7058e1ac39650908f9775bb92c06787c3b3cf7758217807d85943bb273

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2fe95053d12328c50579bdac7a617bd57d438675c2ca625c68e5ce938f35de81",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-01-29T16:24:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cecdb997cc668557376b29cdbdb766fd445b760b7dd8d42b56ce9454a59f75b9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1401.7574",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}