Pith Number

pith:VBJNF6PN

pith:2022:VBJNF6PNDOXHA27BW6ZGDXWCOY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On Bayesian Mechanics: A Physics of and by Beliefs

Beren Millidge, Brennan Klein, Conor Heins, Dalton A. R. Sakthivadivel, Karl J. Friston, Lancelot Da Costa, Magnus Koudahl, Maxwell J. D. Ramstead

arxiv:2205.11543 v4 · 2022-05-23 · cond-mat.stat-mech · math.DS · nlin.AO · physics.bio-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VBJNF6PNDOXHA27BW6ZGDXWCOY}

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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	2026-07-05T06:00:55.943053Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a852d2f9ed1bae706be1b7b261dec27632d0bc00fb2492090b8c2089965a7dcb

Aliases

arxiv: 2205.11543 · arxiv_version: 2205.11543v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2205.11543 · pith_short_12: VBJNF6PNDOXH · pith_short_16: VBJNF6PNDOXHA27B · pith_short_8: VBJNF6PN

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/VBJNF6PNDOXHA27BW6ZGDXWCOY \
  | 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: a852d2f9ed1bae706be1b7b261dec27632d0bc00fb2492090b8c2089965a7dcb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b0a543fe7b920e4847e4018293090b4af57f6f08f1499410d66c0431da77b46f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.DS",
      "nlin.AO",
      "physics.bio-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2022-05-23T18:00:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6e81e10a927cd1477aecccb3b968f6d105206384ecd57be6dffb4a02f6a1f6bd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2205.11543",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}