Pith Number

pith:TPW7E6FI

pith:2018:TPW7E6FIUPXBIXRF4ERJZFYTAL

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Characterising information-theoretic storage and transfer in continuous time processes

Joseph T. Lizier, Richard E. Spinney

arxiv:1804.03269 v1 · 2018-04-09 · cs.IT · math.IT · physics.data-an · q-bio.NC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TPW7E6FIUPXBIXRF4ERJZFYTAL}

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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	2026-05-18T00:09:14.912415Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9bedf278a8a3ee145e25e1229c971302f7e9866a9e8ac64f6d729dcaa917ac70

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.03269 · arxiv_version: 1804.03269v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.03269 · pith_short_12: TPW7E6FIUPXB · pith_short_16: TPW7E6FIUPXBIXRF · pith_short_8: TPW7E6FI

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TPW7E6FIUPXBIXRF4ERJZFYTAL \
  | 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: 9bedf278a8a3ee145e25e1229c971302f7e9866a9e8ac64f6d729dcaa917ac70

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "30e05ee65e6b2cb98138956bdaa3aed98d435f807c62c01650972b014b1b430e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT",
      "physics.data-an",
      "q-bio.NC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-09T23:08:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5a7c6cfdac7ac0b222f1346b35924e11bbafe2dac064112a0c26e09685158cbf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.03269",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}