Pith Number

pith:THALDDW2

pith:2015:THALDDW2I3CZXQVAXKDNT35MI2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Why the Kemeny Time is a Constant

Jeffrey J. Hunter, Karl Gustafson

arxiv:1510.00456 v2 · 2015-10-02 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{THALDDW2I3CZXQVAXKDNT35MI2}

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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	2026-05-18T01:27:56.751668Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

99c0b18eda46c59bc2a0ba86d9efac4699ee6d11fed8d66958cbe7d9edd8ab3c

Aliases

arxiv: 1510.00456 · arxiv_version: 1510.00456v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1510.00456 · pith_short_12: THALDDW2I3CZ · pith_short_16: THALDDW2I3CZXQVA · pith_short_8: THALDDW2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/THALDDW2I3CZXQVAXKDNT35MI2 \
  | 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: 99c0b18eda46c59bc2a0ba86d9efac4699ee6d11fed8d66958cbe7d9edd8ab3c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e23676dbd4cafae4aab7ea0769b56b0beb4844cb6208b6b4f8046bfb04a670e7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2015-10-02T00:54:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4dfc70bfdaa63347fd58387bec8de639b499c67f163f6127b301fe9f7a51d368"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1510.00456",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}