Pith Number

pith:UGWSQQTZ

pith:2009:UGWSQQTZYF7CUCSEHGC7YDKCAR

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Networked buffering: a basic mechanism for distributed robustness in complex adaptive systems

Axel Bender, James M Whitacre

arxiv:0912.1961 v3 · 2009-12-10 · nlin.AO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UGWSQQTZYF7CUCSEHGC7YDKCAR}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:06:21.156428Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a1ad284279c17e2a0a443985fc0d420471a53861747aad5144a37bb7801bef3e

Aliases

arxiv: 0912.1961 · arxiv_version: 0912.1961v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0912.1961 · pith_short_12: UGWSQQTZYF7C · pith_short_16: UGWSQQTZYF7CUCSE · pith_short_8: UGWSQQTZ

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/UGWSQQTZYF7CUCSEHGC7YDKCAR \
  | 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: a1ad284279c17e2a0a443985fc0d420471a53861747aad5144a37bb7801bef3e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d6e1c138399b533cdde649cccf0ea5f264d3422f6a5290f838024842cc86d8d3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "nlin.AO",
    "submitted_at": "2009-12-10T10:53:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "594541002f765c3e2281e935bc412399e59ca0e3a9547611663926adec8ef1b0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0912.1961",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}