Pith Number

pith:UUADO555

pith:2010:UUADO5553ZWC6UUTT7JYXUAA7C

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Towards Autopoietic Computing

Gerard Briscoe, Paolo Dini

arxiv:1009.0797 v1 · 2010-09-04 · cs.OH

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UUADO5553ZWC6UUTT7JYXUAA7C}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:05:36.959305Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a5003777bdde6c2f52939fd38bd000f88072e3dd211eb9b28938ef6c70a70790

Aliases

arxiv: 1009.0797 · arxiv_version: 1009.0797v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1009.0797 · pith_short_12: UUADO5553ZWC · pith_short_16: UUADO5553ZWC6UUT · pith_short_8: UUADO555

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/UUADO5553ZWC6UUTT7JYXUAA7C \
  | 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: a5003777bdde6c2f52939fd38bd000f88072e3dd211eb9b28938ef6c70a70790

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "52da82b3fdbfe7eef48678eabc5d8f6efa1bb0c8b0ac04b09c0030a7e08a3ff6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.OH",
    "submitted_at": "2010-09-04T01:33:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bf5bc9f4d75e3c6a90b27908340a2d6a17b915cf42fc286d0f557d2a3389e5fe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1009.0797",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}