Pith Number

pith:SNBJQ56P

pith:2026:SNBJQ56PEWXLNXUCDKAXU2Y6MM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Towards Human-Level Book-Writing Capability

Jan Zierstek, Matteo Batelic, Maya Medjad, Tim Sch\"onenberger

arxiv:2605.17064 v1 · 2026-05-16 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SNBJQ56PEWXLNXUCDKAXU2Y6MM}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-20T00:03:38.788344Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

93429877cf25aeb6de821a817a6b1e633d1bba780a4be2705c3ae288c1b2aa5d

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.17064 · arxiv_version: 2605.17064v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.17064 · pith_short_12: SNBJQ56PEWXL · pith_short_16: SNBJQ56PEWXLNXUC · pith_short_8: SNBJQ56P

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/SNBJQ56PEWXLNXUCDKAXU2Y6MM \
  | 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: 93429877cf25aeb6de821a817a6b1e633d1bba780a4be2705c3ae288c1b2aa5d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d83fb027a92a4669b7c6917373009dbb63e8d5b0e7677c131244cd01e1ef03f4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-16T16:10:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4a1b4525eab09976afe6a2c6112dff811e0e48e8289d70b8ab012c09bbb53646"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.17064",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}