Pith Number

pith:RKBXE4UA

pith:2026:RKBXE4UAC4CNBLNMLVGOYM4ZAB

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Candidacy and Trigger: A Two-Phase Empirical Model of Hierarchical Collapse

Kristian Sestak

arxiv:2605.18925 v1 · 2026-05-18 · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RKBXE4UAC4CNBLNMLVGOYM4ZAB}

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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	2026-05-20T00:06:32.413628Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8a837272801704d0adac5d4cec3399006fbbb741166f166b32fbec7deb5bbbb2

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.18925 · arxiv_version: 2605.18925v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.18925 · pith_short_12: RKBXE4UAC4CN · pith_short_16: RKBXE4UAC4CNBLNM · pith_short_8: RKBXE4UA

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/RKBXE4UAC4CNBLNMLVGOYM4ZAB \
  | 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: 8a837272801704d0adac5d4cec3399006fbbb741166f166b32fbec7deb5bbbb2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6da4e4a7a20641281128b0c84d5af3283ae384c868b8a15a58e737f83e48f7a4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-18T12:36:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "48d6c7a68083b14a3d87481a4076156adc96e3454ea37eafacd66ad352288564"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.18925",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}