Pith Number

pith:S6AYFAOW

pith:2013:S6AYFAOWR3LBBD3PMMG7CVS4Y6

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Towards a Synergy-based Approach to Measuring Information Modification

Benjamin Flecker, Joseph T. Lizier, Paul L. Williams

arxiv:1303.3440 v1 · 2013-03-14 · cs.IT · math.IT · nlin.CG · physics.data-an

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{S6AYFAOWR3LBBD3PMMG7CVS4Y6}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:10:58.135081Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

97818281d68ed6108f6f630df1565cc7bef850bf334906681677bdd02ff2febb

Aliases

arxiv: 1303.3440 · arxiv_version: 1303.3440v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1303.3440 · pith_short_12: S6AYFAOWR3LB · pith_short_16: S6AYFAOWR3LBBD3P · pith_short_8: S6AYFAOW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/S6AYFAOWR3LBBD3PMMG7CVS4Y6 \
  | 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: 97818281d68ed6108f6f630df1565cc7bef850bf334906681677bdd02ff2febb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "75fc142af24660b6eb5664f1b7c62ff3cd9dfe7acf83d927745b1f0b6da59d7a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT",
      "nlin.CG",
      "physics.data-an"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2013-03-14T13:24:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2adbae42969bf1e42bce247dab46c971eacaa076238bf873e89f49105bf3a598"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1303.3440",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}