Pith Number

pith:TGFPHHGW

pith:2014:TGFPHHGW6XM3XIJ26EFG4AYQEF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Probing the Mind Behind the (Literal and Figurative) Lightbulb

Liane Gabora

arxiv:1409.3911 v4 · 2014-09-13 · q-bio.NC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TGFPHHGW6XM3XIJ26EFG4AYQEF}

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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	2026-05-18T02:26:12.680853Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

998af39cd6f5d9bba13af10a6e03102179ec31c0dc1604b1be581c6bcbc42c2e

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.3911 · arxiv_version: 1409.3911v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.3911 · pith_short_12: TGFPHHGW6XM3 · pith_short_16: TGFPHHGW6XM3XIJ2 · pith_short_8: TGFPHHGW

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/TGFPHHGW6XM3XIJ26EFG4AYQEF \
  | 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: 998af39cd6f5d9bba13af10a6e03102179ec31c0dc1604b1be581c6bcbc42c2e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c83d8000c20cbda90f701ab4193c943ef31ae368df8952ce0a7800cf75b95711",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-13T04:56:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ed179a948dd66b7e64aca6638c6288199caaa328199be2946cc09c1a3385343f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.3911",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}