Pith Number

pith:SEF76J6P

pith:2017:SEF76J6PF6JKHNSNRAV5KQNOQ7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Universality of Memcomputing Machines

Fabio L. Traversa, Massimiliano Di Ventra, Yan Ru Pei

arxiv:1712.08702 v2 · 2017-12-23 · cs.NE · cs.ET

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SEF76J6PF6JKHNSNRAV5KQNOQ7}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-17T23:44:59.902169Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

910bff27cf2f92a3b64d882bd541ae87f59c853cdcdef1ed0eceadfbd8ae1cd2

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.08702 · arxiv_version: 1712.08702v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.08702 · pith_short_12: SEF76J6PF6JK · pith_short_16: SEF76J6PF6JKHNSN · pith_short_8: SEF76J6P

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/SEF76J6PF6JKHNSNRAV5KQNOQ7 \
  | 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: 910bff27cf2f92a3b64d882bd541ae87f59c853cdcdef1ed0eceadfbd8ae1cd2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "888513d9c651e0c63231f6068f8656bacc24fe7fab5418e0e72ef034f3257121",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.ET"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-23T02:30:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8ea7f71517f4b849794c3a009fed1ef02468a88b2b31bb4e748d1789cfd76a0c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.08702",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}