Pith Number

pith:SU23XLCR

pith:2026:SU23XLCRKU4TXJYCCBMVFPCG2C

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Predictor-Impossibility Theorem and Applications

Tom Altman

arxiv:2608.05613 v1 · 2026-08-06 · cs.CC

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SU23XLCRKU4TXJYCCBMVFPCG2C}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-08-07T00:50:18.112401Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9535bbac5155393ba702105952bc46d0b6cc900c68e97d062671a0c41451d055

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.05613 · arxiv_version: 2608.05613v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.05613 · pith_short_12: SU23XLCRKU4T · pith_short_16: SU23XLCRKU4TXJYC · pith_short_8: SU23XLCR

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/SU23XLCRKU4TXJYCCBMVFPCG2C \
  | 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: 9535bbac5155393ba702105952bc46d0b6cc900c68e97d062671a0c41451d055

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "16509015154200f42936607afe32415c65949d73bf2f58f0c02dc96536380d11",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-06T05:25:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9b404c2891a39ee7cae570cbc6b5573cca9bb7999dec5cd358a9eab552aff268"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.05613",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}