Pith Number

pith:UF63P4OB

pith:2024:UF63P4OBS7S2YZXSPOCE46KQSS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Information Theory of Meaningful Communication

Doron Sivan, Misha Tsodyks

arxiv:2411.12728 v1 · 2024-11-19 · cs.CL · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UF63P4OBS7S2YZXSPOCE46KQSS}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-07-05T11:52:15.969981Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a17db7f1c197e5ac66f27b844e795094828a24acd4ebe88983659c04f3630b4b

Aliases

arxiv: 2411.12728 · arxiv_version: 2411.12728v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2411.12728 · pith_short_12: UF63P4OBS7S2 · pith_short_16: UF63P4OBS7S2YZXS · pith_short_8: UF63P4OB

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/UF63P4OBS7S2YZXSPOCE46KQSS \
  | 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: a17db7f1c197e5ac66f27b844e795094828a24acd4ebe88983659c04f3630b4b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d029969e4af26538a216e286eba4ddde7b14b67f4846be49011d2a72587a3523",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2024-11-19T18:51:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "75b52439b5b9cde9d04b2b3bf573d96b814efbaa2f4b9746a803db93b15b76f6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2411.12728",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}