Pith Number

pith:VDEYPONP

pith:2011:VDEYPONPASZQMNFX36SHLGILN3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Generalized Measures of Information Transfer

Paul L. Williams, Randall D. Beer

arxiv:1102.1507 v1 · 2011-02-08 · physics.data-an · cs.IT · math.DS · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VDEYPONPASZQMNFX36SHLGILN3}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T04:29:53.086207Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8c987b9af04b30634b7dfa475990b6ecb27f08a6040eb2522518cb8c50be6cf

Aliases

arxiv: 1102.1507 · arxiv_version: 1102.1507v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1102.1507 · pith_short_12: VDEYPONPASZQ · pith_short_16: VDEYPONPASZQMNFX · pith_short_8: VDEYPONP

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/VDEYPONPASZQMNFX36SHLGILN3 \
  | 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: a8c987b9af04b30634b7dfa475990b6ecb27f08a6040eb2522518cb8c50be6cf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5c77d90a0f194779c88dd3bdbe9a2eec2e41136664e3dfdc5b604f2086c7b2ec",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.DS",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.data-an",
    "submitted_at": "2011-02-08T04:45:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3b817384932293d771465024b6d6dfc57ca252e15ec106b3510bb7850ac48447"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1102.1507",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}