Pith Number

pith:T5MMWRMU

pith:2026:T5MMWRMUAWAKNHZXLGAYHKWSFH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

When Truth Is Distributed: Misinformation Derails Collective Fact Recovery in LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems

Chenfei Yan, Chengyi Sun, Erliang Lin, Feifei Zhao, Haibo Tong, Lu Jia, Mingyang Lyu, Yi Zeng, Zeyang Yue

arxiv:2608.03421 v1 · 2026-08-04 · cs.MA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{T5MMWRMUAWAKNHZXLGAYHKWSFH}

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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	2026-08-05T01:35:49.207025Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9f58cb45940580a69f37598183aad229e6a4f9936617e06440b021731bd53ebc

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.03421 · arxiv_version: 2608.03421v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.03421 · pith_short_12: T5MMWRMUAWAK · pith_short_16: T5MMWRMUAWAKNHZX · pith_short_8: T5MMWRMU

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/T5MMWRMUAWAKNHZXLGAYHKWSFH \
  | 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: 9f58cb45940580a69f37598183aad229e6a4f9936617e06440b021731bd53ebc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2c6a315376cbe1eebfa029ae6cb2be7ae257c788227c04bd652b316e555901cc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.MA",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-04T10:12:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "458be019dc535d4e1b6061272230422cc6d43e3a11f686468b451855bd908691"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.03421",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}