Pith Number

pith:TIG4SDBI

pith:2011:TIG4SDBITTPRHCFYEUZYJIQ4OL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Anatomy of a Bit: Information in a Time Series Observation

Christopher J. Ellison, James P. Crutchfield, Ryan G. James

arxiv:1105.2988 v1 · 2011-05-16 · cs.IT · cond-mat.stat-mech · math.IT · math.ST · nlin.AO · stat.TH

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TIG4SDBITTPRHCFYEUZYJIQ4OL}

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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	2026-05-18T02:01:58.121540Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9a0dc90c289cdf1388b8253384a21c72eca3765fa5699c890020f61a259e4f30

Aliases

arxiv: 1105.2988 · arxiv_version: 1105.2988v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1105.2988 · pith_short_12: TIG4SDBITTPR · pith_short_16: TIG4SDBITTPRHCFY · pith_short_8: TIG4SDBI

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/TIG4SDBITTPRHCFYEUZYJIQ4OL \
  | 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: 9a0dc90c289cdf1388b8253384a21c72eca3765fa5699c890020f61a259e4f30

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5abc4250df0e5203bf3dbc75888466a4dbac90522d0ad11315ff09dce1347205",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech",
      "math.IT",
      "math.ST",
      "nlin.AO",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2011-05-16T01:26:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f84ea2d69c95dc9a82a6e422d059503681a19fb956592080a9ea546fa936589c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1105.2988",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}